All Chapters of Falling for My Best Friend's Brother: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Liam's POVShe went still the moment I said her name.Not completely still. Just that small tightening across her shoulders that told me she had heard me and she knew exactly who it was. She did not turn around. She took two steps toward the bar counter like she was planning to order something and let the moment go, like I was not standing right behind her.I waited.She stopped walking.For a second she just stood there and I watched the back of her head and the straight fall of the wig and I thought, she is going to turn around. And then she did.She turned around slowly.She looked at me from behind the red mask and for a moment her expression did something she clearly had not planned. She looked flustered before she pulled her composure back together. Something that looked a lot like the feeling I had been trying to keep off my own face ever since the day I met her right at this bar.Scarlett was never flustered. Every other time I had seen her she was the calmest, most controlled

Avery's POVHe did not answer straight away.I had asked about Jade like I was asking about a random stranger I didn't know. He was quiet as if there was an elephant in the room for a second or two before he picked it up. I lay still and waited and told myself I was just curious, that it was a natural follow-up question from everything else we had been talking about, that it had nothing to do with the fact that his stepsister was my best friend and I was lying next to him wearing a mask. But I genuinely wanted to know what he thought about her."She is struggling with the idea of me and my dad," he said. "I understand why though. Her mum remarried quickly and moved someone into her house and she did not have much say in any of it. That would be hard for anyone." He paused. "She is not wrong to feel what she feels. She is just bxng a brad though and directing all her negative energy at the nearest available targets instead of making peace with the actual situation.""So she's upset wit

Liam's POVI had been on enough teams to know the difference between a captain of a team who wanted you to succeed and one who needed you to know your place.Colton was the second kind and I had known it within the first week of being here in this new team.He was good at his job. I was not going to pretend otherwise. He ran routes cleanly, he knew the playbook better than anyone on the offence, and he had a way of commanding a huddle that most players had to earn over years. Technically, he was exactly what a wide receiver captain should be. But there was something else underneath all of that, something that had nothing to do with football and everything to do with the fact that I had walked into the starting position that everyone had apparently understood was untouchable.I did not take the starting spot from him. The spot was always mine. I was recruited for it and he knew that before I arrived. But knowing something and accepting it were two different things, and Colton had not m

Liam's POVJace had a rule about new situations. He had explained it to me before I left for Crestwood. I thought he was clearly joking for the first two minutes but as he continued to talk, I realized he was serious."Keep your head down for the first month," he had said. "Just watch. Learn the room. Figure out who matters and who is just loud. Then you can start making moves."I had been keeping my head down.I had let the film session go. I had walked away from the corridor conversation with Colton and told myself it was the smart play, that Jace was right, that there was nothing to gain from making it a thing before I had established myself properly. Besides, he was the captain and I would stand to lose a lot by challenging him. I had focused on the training sessions and the playbook and getting the offence running the way it should and I had been disciplined about not giving Colton any form of reaction at all.This was now two and a half weeks of keeping my head down.Two and a

Liam's POVI stood at the edge of the field and watched Colton walk back to his side like he owned every inch of ground he had ever stepped on.Tate jogged over and stopped beside me, still catching his breath from the last drill. The drill had been cut short because of Colton's drama. He followed my gaze across the field, took one look at my face, and let out a slow breath."Tell me you are not about to do what I think you are about to do," he said."I am thinking," I said."You are not thinking. You look like a man who already decided something and is just waiting for his legs to catch up."I did not answer him. Down on the track, Avery had already pulled her squad back into formation like nothing had happened. Her voice carried over the noise of both practices, steady and sharp, calling out her counts. Her coach was beside her with her clipboard tucked under her arm. Her back was straight and she had the look of someone who had swallowed something bitter and was absolutely not goin