BALL 4 ME (COMPLETED)

JACE

I didn't get here by accident. Rookie of the Year. Two-time Offensive Player of the Year. Two-time All-Star. Everything I've built has been for one thing: an NBA title.

When I'm traded to a championship-ready superteam, it finally feels within reach-even if I walk into a locker room full of tension and resentment over losing their star.

Then I meet Ava Phillips.

She's the team's publisher, responsible for holding the franchise together in the media. I'm supposed to stay focused, but the more we're forced into each other's orbit, the more she becomes impossible to ignore. Somewhere between late nights, pressure, and lines we shouldn't cross, basketball stops being the only thing I care about.

Then everything changes when Ava tells me she's pregnant.

Now the season I've worked for my entire life is colliding with a future I never planned-and for the first time, I don't know what winning really means.

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AVA

I've built my career on controlling narratives for the New York Ballers-two championships, a winning culture, a perfect image.

Then Jace Rhodes arrives.

He's everything the league expects: talented, focused, untouchable. And everything the city doesn't want. I'm supposed to manage his reputation, not fall into it.

But after one mistake that breaks every rule, I'm left hiding a secret that could destroy everything.

I'm pregnant-and the father is no other than Jace Rhodes.

Now I'm caught between my career, the franchise I built, and a man I was never supposed to want. And the hardest part isn't the media storm coming-it's what happens when Jace finds out.