Fierce Storm

THERE'S COMPLICATED AND THEN THERE'S KEELEY REYNOLDS.

When I chase a childhood dream and buy the San Francisco Storm football team, I don't expect it to change me.

But from the moment I cross paths with Keeley Reynolds, the team's confident and fiercely loyal media liaison, something clicks into place.

Our connection is instant. The kind of friendship, trust, and understanding that feels dangerously rare.

I can't stay away.

Late-night strategy sessions blur into quiet moments in empty stadiums, and before long, boundaries shift, fading the professional line we can't afford to cross.

Because off-limits doesn't begin to cover it.

She's thirty-three to my fifty-two. I'm her boss. And when my daughter marries her brother, she'll be family.

I'm not a man who wants things he shouldn't. But I'm also not a man without regrets. The kind of relationship failures that follow a person around.

Keeley sees me in ways no one else has, and for the first time in years, I want to let someone else in. More than that, I want to deserve it.

But wanting her and being right for her are two very different things. The question is-which one of us will break first?