Biting the Wire (EthanXJobe)

THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO HATE EACH OTHER.

Ethan Mbappe has spent years being compared to his older brother.

Every interview.

Every game.

Every mistake.

Every time someone asks if he'll ever be as good as Kylian.

So Ethan learned to make himself impossible to underestimate.

He's loud when people expect him to be quiet.

Proud when people expect him to be submissive.

And completely unwilling to let anyone see just how exhausted he actually is, especially Jobe Bellingham.

Because Jobe is everything Ethan can't stand.

Too calm.

Too patient.

Too fucking nice.

And, according to Ethan, far too soft to be an Alpha.

Jobe thinks Ethan is arrogant.

Ethan thinks Jobe is weak.

Neither of them is particularly interested in changing the other's mind.

Until their managers send them to Paris for a joint sponsor trip......and put them in the same suite.

For an entire week.

Then Ethan's heat hits.

Hard.

Suddenly, the boy who would rather bite through a wire than admit he needs help is struggling to keep himself together.

And the one person who refuses to leave him alone? Jobe.

The Alpha Ethan has spent months underestimating.

Ethan expects Jobe to take control.

He expects him to prove every assumption Ethan has ever made about him right.Instead, Jobe waits.

He listens.

He gives Ethan a choice.

And when Ethan finally trusts him enough to surrender control...

Jobe gives it straight back.

Because maybe Jobe was never too soft to be an Alpha.

Maybe Ethan just never understood that strength doesn't always look like dominance.

And maybe two people who spent months trying to prove they couldn't stand each other are about to become the one thing neither of them can afford to lose.