End Game

End Game

Author: Adriana Locke Listening Length: 7h 3m

The headlines don’t lie—two pro football players went head-to-head … over me. My brother warned me. Don’t touch Branch Best. They might be teammates and best friends, but Branch is a heartbreaker. The smirk. The swagger. His playboy reputation is well earned. So obviously, I was drawn to the red flag like a wide re...

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“This is what I get.” I say the words aloud, as if somehow hearing them will make me accept them. “You’ve gone your whole adult life knowing this would happen, yet you still got caught up.”

My legs dangle off the countertop as I sit in the kitchen, smack dab in the middle of the island. Every now and then, the soles of my feet kick against the wooden cabinets and remind me I’m still sitting here. In the same place. For a couple of hours now. My ass is starting to hurt.

I’ve never sat and watched the sun move across the sky until tonight. It’s pretty cool. The colors change from blue to purple and pink and even a fiery orange for a moment. Shadows change, birds stop flying—it’s pretty incredible. You can also get kind of philosophical watching that shit.