All Chapters of THE RIVAL CAPTAIN : Chapter 1 - Chapter 3

The first time I realized someone wanted me dead, I was standing on a basketball court with three seconds left on the championship clock. At the time, I thought the biggest threat in the arena was Rhett Calloway. I was wrong. Rhett had been trying to destroy me for three years. He had stolen my records, challenged my scores, beaten me by a single point, and made it his personal mission to remind me that I wasn’t as untouchable as everyone believed. But he wasn’t the person watching me from the shadows that night. He wasn’t the person who would eventually tear my entire life apart. And he definitely wasn’t the reason my supposedly dead father was about to become the biggest secret of my life.Three seconds remained. The ball was in my hands, and the entire championship rested on my next move. The crowd was screaming so loudly that I could barely hear myself breathe. My teammates were shouting from the bench, the opposing fans were on their feet, and every professional scout sitting cou

By sunrise, I had convinced myself that the photograph had to be fake, because accepting the alternative meant admitting that the last six years of my life had been built on a lie. I had spent six years believing my father was dead. I had stood beside his grave with tears running down my face while relatives told me that he was in a better place. I had watched my mother break down when she thought nobody was looking, and I had learned to hide my own pain because I believed I had no choice. I remembered the night we received the news. I remembered the police officer standing at our door. I remembered the way my father’s favorite chair remained untouched for months because nobody had the courage to move it. I remembered hating myself for surviving when he hadn’t. And now Rhett had shown me a photograph of the man I had mourned standing alive beside a black SUV. Older. Scarred. Different. But still my father. I wanted to believe it was fake. I needed it to be fake. Yet deep down, somethi