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Chapter 64
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2026-05-11 00:50:51
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The Rogue Next Door Epilogue
MayaThree Years Later“Cole, if that football hits my flowers, I swear to God I’m divorcing you before we’re even married.”The backyard goes quiet.Seven grown men stare at me.Cole slowly lowers the football.“We’re not married yet.”“I know. Imagine how embarrassing that’ll be for you.”Jake nearly falls out of his chair laughing.“Holy shit. She’s still mean to him.”“Still?” Bree asks from beside me. “She’s gotten worse.”“I have not.”“You threatened to cancel a wedding over hydrangeas.”“They’re new hydrangeas.”“That somehow makes it reasonable,” Logan says.“Thank you.”Cole points at him. “Why are you still on her side?”Logan takes a drink. “Three years of consistency.”Some things never change.Apparently, neither do these people.Our backyard is full of them. Jake and Markus flew in yesterday. Bree arrived this morning with enough luggage to suggest she plans on moving in. Logan came down between games, and several of Cole’s current teammates are scattered around the poo
The Rogue Next Door Chapter 138
MayaThe football lands three feet from my chair.I stare at it.Then I stare at the house next door.No fucking way.For several seconds, nothing happens. I’m sitting on our back patio with my laptop open, trying to finish an assignment before my shift tomorrow, and there is now a football resting in the grass like the universe has developed a very specific sense of humor.The back door of the football house opens.Cole steps outside.He sees me.Then the ball.Then me again.A grin slowly spreads across his face.“Don’t.”“I didn’t say anything.”“You’re thinking it.”“Pretty loudly.”I close my laptop.Months ago, a football coming into this yard started an actual war.I hated the guys next door. Their parties were too loud, their friends parked everywhere, and their quarterback was an arrogant pain in my ass who seemed personally offended that I wasn’t impressed by him.Now the same quarterback walks across the yard like he owns it.Technically, he does not.Emotionally?Debatable
The Rogue Next Door Chapter 137
MayaNobody tells you when you start college that eventually there will be a last version of everything.Not necessarily the actual last time, because technically we still have classes, football games, work shifts, and enough assignments left to destroy several forests. But lately there’s this strange feeling hanging over everything, like we’ve all suddenly realized this ridiculous life isn’t permanent.Which is probably why there are fourteen people in the football house kitchen on a Thursday night arguing about pizza.“I said pepperoni.”“You ordered three pepperoni.”“Exactly.”Jake stares at Bree like she’s mentally deficient.Bree stares back.“There are vegetables on exactly one pizza.”“Football players don’t eat vegetables.”Markus looks up from his phone. “I eat vegetables.”Jake points at him. “Potatoes don’t count.”“They absolutely count.”“They’re starch.”“Who the fuck invited the nutritionist?”I’m laughing when Cole walks up behind me and hooks an arm around my waist.
The Rogue Next Door Chapter 136
ColeI’ve played football in front of twenty thousand screaming people without throwing up.Apparently sitting in a conference room with three men in suits is where my body draws the fucking line.“You look nervous, Ryder.”I glance at Coach. “I’m not nervous.”“You’ve bounced your knee for ten straight minutes.”I immediately stop.Asshole.Patterson sits across from me with two men I met approximately thirty seconds ago and whose names I’ve already forgotten because one of them started the conversation with several organizations have requested additional film on you.Several.Organizations.As in NFL teams.This shit is actually happening.Patterson closes the folder in front of him. “Nobody can promise where you’ll go. You understand that?”“Yeah.”“Or when.”“I know.”“You could have teams interested today that go another direction tomorrow. Somebody who hasn’t called yet could become your strongest possibility.”Coach has explained all of this before.It sounded different then.H
The Rogue Next Door Chapter 135
ColeThere are seven NFL scouts sitting somewhere behind our bench.I know this because Jake has counted them four fucking times.“Seven.”“I heard you the first three times.”He adjusts his gloves. “Could be eight.”“Jake.”“What?”“Stop looking.”“I’m not nervous.”“You’ve counted professional scouts four times.”He stares toward the stands again.“Definitely seven.”I shove his helmet.“Get your head in the game.”Easy advice considering my own stomach feels like somebody tied it into a knot.This is it.Not the draft. Not some guaranteed million-dollar contract. Nothing that dramatic.But Coach made it pretty damn clear yesterday that tonight matters.Win this game and we’re playing for the conference championship.Play well in front of the men sitting behind us and my name moves higher on some very important lists.No pressure.The stadium is packed, the student section already losing its mind while music pounds through the speakers. I jog toward the sideline after warmups and gl
The Rogue Next Door Chapter 134
MayaThere are five people on the other side of this door deciding whether I get to stop checking my bank account before buying shampoo.That probably isn’t the inspirational thought I’m supposed to have before the most important interview of my college career, but it’s the truth.I sit outside the conference room with my résumé balanced on my knee, wearing the nicest black pants I own and a blouse Bree insisted made me look professional but not like I sell insurance. My palms are sweating, my stomach is trying to digest itself, and somewhere inside my bag my phone has buzzed three times in the last ten minutes.I don’t need to look.Cole.He started at seven this morning.Cole: You’ve got this.Then at eight-thirty:Cole: Remember they’d be lucky to have you.And twenty minutes ago:Cole: Also don’t picture them naked. Apparently that advice upset you.Idiot.I’m smiling when the door opens.“Maya Bennet?”My smile disappears.Oh, fuck.“That’s me.”Here we go.⸻The first question i
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