EPILOGUE

4 months later

It’s the craziest factor. All of it’s. After Joe was fired, nobody anticipated the Boston Rebels to do a lot of something. They’d an interim head coach. Quarterback battles—or so the media performed it. To not point out, they have been already going into this with out a lot of a profitable document. The playoffs appeared like a lofty objective to everybody.

Everybody besides Asher.

Asher and I went to go to Leo within the hospital the day after his damage, and we each informed him the whole lot. He was shocked. His mom by no means spoke about who his father was, and I might see how onerous it hit him to be taught that he had been drafted and dealing along with his organic father with out truly figuring out it.

He was additionally livid when he realized all that Joe had carried out to safe his spot on the staff. After Joe was fired, he formally retired from soccer, figuring out his demons would observe him if he ever tried to educate wherever else. He moved again to LA, and although I don’t need something to do with him personally, I do observe his care by means of his oncologist.

As for the staff, there was quite a bit to determine. So much to type by means of, each emotionally and figuratively since sorting by means of what was finest for the staff going ahead wasn’t so minimize and dry. Asher did what any nice chief would do. As soon as Leo was out of the hospital and feeling a bit higher, he invited the whole staff, together with coaches, over to the residence, they usually all talked it out. They found out a technique for the remainder of the season. One thing that went past one sport at a time.

And it labored for them.

As a result of right here we’re on the identical membership I met Asher in three years in the past, virtually to the day.

And the Boston Rebels received the Tremendous Bowl—once more.

The primary staff to ever accomplish that with an interim coach and two beginning quarterbacks. Asher takes nearly all of the snaps and does nearly all of the enjoying, however they use Leo for Wild Cat formations and different performs once they need to throw off the protection.

The VIP ground of the membership is pounding so loud with thumping home music and the loud chatter of the staff and their important others which you can really feel it vibrating in your bones. I didn’t should sneak up right here this time, which is form of a bummer truly.

That was a complete thrill that night time.

Till issues obtained all mucked up within the lavatory after that, after all.

However now I’m right here as not solely the staff’s orthopedic surgeon but in addition because the MVP’s girlfriend. Asher led the staff to a twenty-one to 10 victory over Badlands and is flying increased than I’ve ever seen him. Fortunately, with out the help of muscle relaxants or too many photographs. His boys and their ladies are right here—as a result of they by no means appear to go or do something with out one another—and we’ve all been dancing our collective asses off.

The music morphs right into a slower, extra hypnotic rhythm, and all of a sudden Leo is earlier than me, pulling me into his arms and transferring us in a sluggish dance. Within the months since I came upon that he’s my half-brother, we’ve grown impossibly shut. I’ve met his mom and his sisters, and he loves ‘uncle time’ with Mason.

I’ll have misplaced my organic father—hell, I’m unsure I ever had him to start with—however the one factor Joe did handle to do for me is give me a brother.

“I’ve one thing to let you know,” he says after we hit a lull within the excited chatter of discussing the sport.

“Why do you look nervous, Leo?”

He spins me out after which twirls me again into his chest. “As a result of I’m.”

My coronary heart fee picks up a couple of additional beats on the critical expression on his face. “What’s occurring? Are you okay?”

“Vegas reached out to my agent. They need me to be their beginning QB subsequent season.”

“Vegas?” I echo, my voice hole as swirls of Rebels purple and blue coloured lights skate over us. “However that’s so far-off. And aren’t you beneath contract with the Rebels?”

“Sure, however I don’t assume Randolph might be opposed to creating a deal for me, and now could be the time for me to strike. We simply received the Tremendous Bowl. I used to be a part of that as a rookie. That is my likelihood to land an enormous contract and be the starter for a staff.”

As a lot as I’m reluctant to confess this, I do know he’s proper. That is his shot. Joe obtained him drafted excessive, however nobody is aware of the way it occurred. His staff simply received the Tremendous Bowl along with his assist. He’s a younger child at first of his profession, and he ought to take it and see how excessive he can go together with it.

I wrap my arms round his neck and produce him in for a hug. “I’m going to overlook you.”

He squeezes me. “I’m going to overlook you. You and Mason will come to go to as a result of the climate in Vegas is nicer than in Boston.”

I snicker. He is aware of how a lot I dislike the chilly of New England.

“Purchase a spot with a pool,” I inform him, making him chuckle in my ear.

“Little doubt. You possibly can even carry that mediocre quarterback of yours.” He and Asher are very shut however love ribbing one another each likelihood they get.

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