The Walk Off

Ten years. Two rivals. One last season to decide how their story ends.

Ethan Cole and Nate Reyes have been baseball's greatest rivalry for a decade. The bench-clearing brawl. The championship series. The trade. The injury. Every chapter of their careers has been written in headlines, debated on talk shows, and immortalized in highlight reels. What no one knows is that behind every fierce stare across the diamond, there was a stolen kiss in a tunnel. Behind every post-game press conference, there was a phone call that made the rest of it survivable.

This is their final season. The farewell tour. The last time they'll hear their names called in a major league stadium. And Ethan is done pretending.

After ten years of hiding, ten years of fake girlfriends and careful distance and loving someone in secret, Ethan Cole and Nate Reyes are about to do the most terrifying thing either of them has ever done—more frightening than any playoff game, any injury, any breakup. They're going to tell the truth.

Not just to their teams. Not just to the league. To everyone.

Some walk-offs win the game. This one changes everything.