I’m totally fine if America wants to cast me as the villain. So why do I care if brooding football player Will Pemberton believes it too?
But honestly? It stings more than it should when Will—grumpy football star and walking scowl—judges me based on a five-second video from Being the Bennets, my family’s reality TV show.
Maybe it’s because his best friend is dating my sister. We’re supposed to be polite strangers. Civil, at best.
Instead, we clash at every turn. I’m sunshine and social media. He’s silence and game film. I’ve built an empire from the spotlight. He avoids it at all costs.
We couldn’t be more different.
And yet…
He keeps showing up. With my favorite cookies. With help when I don’t ask for it. With patience I don’t deserve. He even puts his MVP goals on the line to help my family.
He’s supposed to be the enemy. But the longer we’re orbiting each other, the harder it is to deny there’s more beneath that scowl.
And when I find out the truth behind the gossip that made me hate him in the first place?
Let’s just say he’s not the only one who got things wrong.
Now I have to decide if I’m ready to take a chance on the man who’s been quietly falling for me all along.
