Todos os capítulos de Falling for My Best Friend's Brother: Capítulo 231 - Capítulo 240

Avery's POVI had seen Liam briefly on Monday evening, before the week took over. We had stood in the corridor outside the gym long enough for me to tell him what had happened with Brianna and for him to tell me what had happened with Colton, and somewhere in the middle of it we had both arrived at the same conclusion without needing to say it out loud. We needed to be careful. Both complaints had been filed and both of them were now in motion, and the smart thing, the only thing, was to watch how they played out before either of us did anything else. We agreed on that. We did not discuss what careful looked like beyond that, because we already knew.Tuesday practice started clean.Vega had the squad on the tracks at four, and I ran the warm-up, called the formations, and the girls moved through them with the focused quality that good sessions had when everyone was doing what they were supposed to be doing. Brianna was in her position, running her reps, giving me nothing to call out.

Liam's POVColton found out by Wednesday.I did not know how. I had not told anyone except Avery, and Tate did not know I had gone. But Colton found out the way Colton found things out, which was through the network he had been building in this team since long before I arrived. On Wednesday morning before the session started he came to stand at the locker adjacent to mine while I was getting changed. He did not say anything for a moment, and I knew he was there and said nothing either.Then he said, "You went to Reyes."Not a question.I closed my locker and looked at him. "Yes," I said.He looked back at me with the expression I had not seen from him since the path between the buildings on Monday morning. Not the captain expression and not the managed composure. The real one."About the meeting," he said."About team dynamics and performance concerns. Yes," I replied.He was quiet for a moment. The changing room had other players in it but they were moving carefully around the edges

Avery's POVVega's message came through on Friday morning.'My office before your first session. Nine o'clock.'I had been expecting it since Wednesday. I had watched Brianna move through the squad in the two days between the welfare review notification and now, the quiet purposeful conversations that had nothing to do with formation prep or game day readiness. I had watched Mia stop meeting my eyes during the Thursday session. I had watched the fresher from the stunt avoid my corner of the changing room. I had known something was being built and I had not been able to stop it. I had gone to bed on Thursday night knowing that Friday morning was going to tell me what it was.I went to Vega's office at nine and sat down and she closed the door."A collective statement was submitted to Dr. Osei's office yesterday evening," she said. "I received a copy this morning.""How many signatures," I asked."Five."I said nothing."I am going to read you the key points," Vega said, "because I thin

Avery's POVI went to Liam's at four.The game was at seven thirty and I needed to leave by six. I had two hours, and I did not want to spend them alone in my house turning the five names over in my head for the fourteenth time, so I knocked on his door. He opened it and looked at me for a second, then stepped back and let me in without saying anything.His kitchen was warm. He had been making food that he'd abandoned mid-process when I knocked, something on the hob still with bread sitting out on the counter. I sat at his table and he finished making it, set a plate in front of me, then sat down across from me. We ate for a few minutes in the easy quiet.Then I said, "I am frightened."He looked at me."Not about the game," I told him. "About what happens after it. The review recommendation is coming whether we win or lose tonight. The five names are in the file whether we have the best session of the season or the worst." I looked at the table. "I have spent the last two weeks docum

Liam's POVColton had learned from the first game.He could not run the same campaign he had run a week ago. The formal concern sat in Reyes' file now, documenting a pattern of withheld throws. If Reyes had been watching from the hash mark and had seen what Tate described, then another game of Colton looking away from the open receiver would not be a captain managing his system. It would be a captain providing evidence against himself.So Colton adapted.He threw to me.The first quarter he threw to me three times. Each time on routes that were technically correct, each time into coverage that was marginally tighter than it needed to be, the throw arriving a half second after the window was at its widest. Not bad throws. Not obviously wrong. Just slightly off the optimal timing in ways that produced an incompletion, a short gain instead of a big one, a play that looked like the receiver not quite getting there rather than a quarterback throwing into closing coverage.I caught two of t