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I sit up too quickly and smack my head on the bar running under my roommate’s bunk. “Son of a bitch.”

“What?”

“Not you. I smacked my head on this stupid metal bar. Anyway, how did you know about the apartment thing?”

“Skylar. Well, actually, it was Erin but, still, I think it’s a good idea.”

“You think it’s a good idea?”

I hear him laugh. “Yeah. I think it’ll teach you a few things.”

I should tell him about the draft. I don’t. In fact, I can’t even tell him about the draft yet. I get the feeling he might be a little pissed at me for leaving school. Any time we watch draft day, and there’s a kid like me getting drafted, uncle Bri throws a fit. Not like a tantrum, but he grumbles and complains that the kid should have stayed in school, finished his last two years, graduated, and then gone into the NFL draft.

Then he lists off all the reasons why. From injuries, to being benched the entire time—not really benched, but not starting because he’s actually third or fourth string—to getting cut early. If it turns out the team he’s on can’t afford him, they’ll get rid of the new player, and then he’s back to nothing. With no education to back him up. It happens.

And I get all those reasons. But you know what? That shit is fear talking, and I can’t let fear put me in a corner. I can’t let that shit get to me. The only thing that’s getting to me is leaving behind the one thing I fought so hard to keep, and that’s Skylar. But if I truly love her like I say I do then I’ll let her go.

Uncle Bri and I talk a little longer before he has to get off the phone because Maxwell figured out how to break free from his cage.

I lay back on my bed and sigh, right as there is a knock on my door.

 

 

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

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