Last Possession

Four years of friendship. One season left. Zero spreadsheets for this.

Beau

Beauregard Whitlock has a plan for everything: his senior season, his captain's speech, the grocery run his roommate will forget to make. What he doesn't have a plan for is the way his chest locks up every time Colton Pruitt laughs at one of his own jokes.

Colt is the best friend Beau has ever had, and Beau is not going to ruin that. Not with graduation in May and a professional offer in Spain waiting on the other side of it.

Colt

Colton Pruitt has been quietly in love with his roommate for three years, and he's gotten very good at hiding it. He's also gotten very good at hiding the fact that he's terrified. After eighteen months of surgery and rehab, Colt is back on the court at Wrenfield University, back in the starting five by January, and one wrong landing from losing everything again.

Beau volunteers to be his rehab partner. He shows up at 6 a.m. with coffee, tracks every set, and refuses to let Colt quit. It would be so easy to mistake that for something more. Colt knows better. Beau is leaving. Beau always has a plan.

Together

But rehab leads to road trips, road trips lead to a snowed-in hotel in Pittsburgh, and the line between best friends and something else gets harder to find with every game. When the kiss finally happens, it feels like the most inevitable thing in the world.

Now there's a conference tournament to win, a contract deadline closing in, and a boy who has never asked anyone to stay. Because love isn't a play you can draw up in advance, and the clock is running.

Last Possession is a warm, banter-filled, slow-burn standalone with all the heart and none of the heat: closed-door intimacy, found family, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

Tropes: Friends to Lovers · Roommates · Slow Burn · Sports Romance · Dual POV · New Adult · Gay Romance