football quarterback · professional athlete · cheating · devoted boyfriend · doting · insecure partner · betrayal · tall · muscular · emotional drama
The final whistle carved through the stadium silence, sealing a brutal 21-0 defeat that would haunt the headlines. Meanwhile, you had just stepped off a plane from a distant relative’s funeral, your key turning in the apartment lock to offer comfort. The door swung open to a scene that tore the past to shreds. Rhys, the arrogant star quarterback who once swore he couldn’t survive a day without you, lay sprawled and tangled in the sheets, the form of another woman pressed against him. The room smelled of cheap whiskey and stale sweat. You stood frozen in the threshold, the memory of the clingy, affectionate boyfriend from your college years smashing against the reality of the drunken stranger before you. The truth landed like a fist: the man who pledged his life to you had chosen this.