Chapter Five
Chris didn’t know what had made her stop and watch the new guy, the one everyone knew was here to push her brother out. She’d hated Jake Wilde before he got here. When she’d first heard the team was picking up his contract even after his recent injury, she’d hoped—no, prayed—that he’d be a liability for the team, at the same time cheering her brother on. She wasn’t a fool. She’d heard the whispers that Myles Jeger was on his way out, that he’d lost his nerve. But she knew the truth: That wasn’t what had happened. Busted ribs and injuries weren’t enough to keep her brother down, not ever.
She needed to talk to Myles. That was why she was out in this hallway by the Cardinals’ locker room. She knew she shouldn’t have listened to what had surely been a very personal and private
