Bad Reputation
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Lexi Cruise OC X Leah Williamson
After a public scandal at Barcelona destroys Lexi Cruise's image, she arrives at Arsenal labelled reckless, selfish, and trouble. But the headlines don't show the truth: a controlling boyfriend, a friendship she keeps hurting, and a captain who sees through her better than anyone else. As Lexi rebuilds her career, faces what she did, and chooses England, she must learn the difference between love and ownership, secrecy and privacy, and being a bad reputation versus being a whole person.
TW: emotional abuse, manipulation, toxic relationship dynamics, online hate, anxiety, internalised homophobia, implied homophobic language, alcohol use.
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