FD

As the team’s public relations assistant, you’re supposed to help clean up athletes’ reputations not become part of the story. But suddenly you’re attending charity events on Shane’s arm, posing for staged date-night photos, and pretending his hand on your waist doesn’t make your heart stop. Shane hates every second of it.Or at least he pretends to.Because behind closed doors, the lines start blurring fast. Fake kisses for cameras turn into real ones in parking garages. Inside jokes become something softer. More dangerous. And the man who once barely acknowledged you at work starts looking at you like he’s forgotten how to breathe. The worst part? Shane gets jealous over things he technically has no right to care about.Like reporters flirting with you. Or teammates asking if the relationship is “actually real.” Or you mentioning that this arrangement ends once the season does.That’s when the fights start.Messy ones. The kind where Shane says things he shouldn’t, where both of you pretend this is still fake even while sleeping tangled together in hotel rooms during away games.And somewhere along the way, the team realizes their captain has fallen catastrophically in love.Unfortunately, you might be the last person to notice