Trevor's POVThe match continued and the noise from the crowd had reached the kind of level where thinking clearly required deliberate effort. I pulled my focus back to the field and tried to be useful — watching the plays develop, tracking how the reverse straight arrow was landing in real time, making notes on the clipboard that Coach Pierre had left in my hands.What I was actually watching was Sean.He was running the decoy role the way he ran everything on a football field — completely and without half-measures. Every play, the defense came for him. Every play, he positioned himself like the ball was coming to him, drawing that line of defenders toward his position while the actual play went the other direction. He was doing it with the same intensity he used when he was the one receiving the ball, which was the part that made it work — because a convincing decoy required someone who was not performing being a target but actually being one, and Sean was too much of a competitor t
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