I was his stalker.

He was my religion.

And somewhere between the lies and the worship,

we fell in love.

Everyone warned me that love could ruin you.

They just never said it would feel this good while it burned.

Matty Adler is the University of Tennessee’s golden boy—star tight end, campus legend, the kind of man girls write their names next to in notebooks.

I should know.

Mine’s filled with his.

I used to watch him from my car.

Follow his schedule.

Trace his smile like it was a prayer.

He was the reason I chose this school. The reason I started breathing again.

And then one day, he looked up and saw me.

Now he’s caught me.

Now he says he loves me, too.

He was never supposed to know my secret.

But love like ours doesn’t play fair. It devours. It traps. It destroys.

And maybe that’s what we both wanted all along.

Because maybe…I was never the wrong choice.

Maybe I was his only one.

*Note: Matty Adler is a morally grey antihero who is obsessed with his girl and will do anything to keep her. This is a darker football romance.