Least of all Asher proper now.

He’s modified a bit over the previous few weeks. He smiles much less, and his method appears… tougher. Much less go-with-the-flow. Much less himself. I’ve pushed a little bit bit, however he gained’t speak about it. I do know it’s associated to every thing that’s occurring along with his place on the group and its future.

Joe is aware of about me and Asher, and the way Asher is Mason’s father. Asher advised me he adopted him to the drug retailer and confronted him there, however then Joe had the audacity to inform me I ought to finish it with him as a result of he’s not adequate for me.

I laughed in his face and walked away.

However I additionally know that Joe doesn’t like Asher and that his time on this group is borrowed. What meaning for me and Mason, I don’t know. Solely time will inform, and I drive myself to not dwell on it. At the very least not till I’ve to.

“Remind me why we’ve got to be on the sphere?”

Simply because the phrases depart my mouth a defensive participant comes barreling at Leo, who doesn’t run or shift to deflect the onslaught. The defensive participant plows via one among our offensive guys and straight into Leo, knocking him to the bottom with a lot drive that I instantly cowl my mouth with my arms to stifle my shriek of horror.

“Fuck,” Dean hisses.

“Oh my God!” I grip his forearm. “Is he transferring? Is he getting up? Is he okay?” I stand up on my toes to try to get a greater look, however I’m shorter than all of those gamers by a number of inches.

A participant waves over the coaching employees. “Doesn’t look that means. This is the reason we keep on the sphere.”

Dean grabs his medication bag and runs out onto the sphere, and I discover myself strolling over to the sideline to the place Asher is standing along with his arms on his head, elbows butterflied out, and misery throughout his face.

“He’s unconscious,” he tells me, and I really feel my eyes prickling with tears. “I attempted speaking to him, and he hasn’t responded, and I heard Ryder name that out to the employees.”

“Dean is on it.”

He provides me an absent nod, however that’s it. Joe is on the sphere, standing over Leo and speaking with the crew who’re engaged on him. He wipes at his face, his expression grim, after which he factors at Asher.

My coronary heart gallops quicker in my chest. “What does that imply?”

Asher blows out a breath. “It means I’m up.”

“No.”

The phrase is out of my mouth earlier than I can cease it. Asher friends down at me, however after seeing that hit Leo simply took and watching as they convey out the fucking cart and put him on a backboard with a neck collar, I can’t assist it.

“Asher.” I comply with him again to the bench the place he grabs his helmet off a holder.

He turns again to me, stares round at everybody round us, after which again up on the crowd within the stands. And when he turns again to me, I see the grit and uncooked dedication in his eyes and the locked set of his jaw.

“I’ll be tremendous.”

The gang erupts in applause as Leo provides a small thumbs-up as they load him onto the cart and drive him out towards the tunnel. Thank God for that!

“I’ve to get warmed up.”

“Asher!”

His hand cups my jaw, after which his mouth slams down on mine. Tough and passionate, and taking no prisoners. Proper right here on the sphere. In entrance of all the world, most probably as a result of I’m constructive there are cameras skilled on the returning quarterback. However at this second, I don’t care.

I’m scared.

I don’t need him to go on the market, and I by no means thought of it in these phrases earlier than, however he may get harm.

“You don’t have to observe,” he whispers in opposition to my mouth. “However that is what I do. And I’m rattling fucking good at it.” He steps again and offers me an conceited boy wink. “I really like you.” After which he places his helmet on as a child comes racing over, holding a ball, and able to take some passes with him.

“I really like you too,” I murmur, however he’s already gone, and now I’m caught right here like this. With my face plastered throughout the huge screens that line the higher portion of every endzone. Superior.

I head again over to the returning coaching employees, doing my finest to faux to not discover that my face is blown as much as the dimensions of a blue whale in excessive definition or the gamers who’re all staring and speaking about me and their quarterback.

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