Red Zone Realizations

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sometimes love hits when you least expect it. He's her unexpected chance at a new beginning. She's his biggest risk off the field.</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Audrey</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Six months ago I walked away from my picture-perfect engagement to finally start living for myself after finding out my ex lied about wanting the same future I did.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now I'm focused on growing my social media business and earning back my family's approval.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Yoga is my one escape-sixty minutes of silence and invisibility.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until a six-foot-two NFL tight end slams the studio door into my face.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Noah Fox is calm where I'm chaos steady where I overthink-and nothing like the cocky athletes my ex used to idolize.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's the first person who makes me feel like I'm finally enough. And before I can stop it we go from strangers to something real.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He might be the man I've always hoped for but when my truth is twisted into an ultimatum I'm left with an impossible choice- keep the peace or fight for something real.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Noah</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The plan was simple: stay focused heal up and keep my spot on the Houston Hurricanes.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>No distractions. No drama. No women.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then I bloodied a beautiful stranger's nose... and broke every rule I'd made for myself.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Audrey Dupree is sharp guarded and so far out of my league she doesn't even realize we're playing the same game.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But just when I think she might be the best thing that's ever happened to me her past comes back swinging.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When a player on another team starts running his mouth I lose the control I've worked so hard to hold.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Audrey thinks loving her would be too complicated but she's the only thing I've been sure of all season.</span></p>