Taming the varsity player
He was Mike's childhood shadow—wherever Mike went, Jake was usually raiding the fridge or causing a scene close behind.
Behind him, leaning heavily against the doorframe with a thick black compression sleeve wrapping his injured shoulder, was Chad Miller. Nineteen, six-foot-two, with dark, closely cropped hair and hard, gray eyes, Chad looked less like a high school senior and more like a heavy-duty bouncer. He was the varsity team's enforcer, still scowling from the medical restrictions the warehouse fight had put on his senior season.
"Don't start, Bill," Mike muttered, swinging his long legs out of the sports car. He didn't offer to carry my bag—maintaining that cool, detached distance