They share an apartment, a team, and four years of something neither of them has named.
Sable Cruz is nonbinary and has spent five seasons at Las Brasas making sure their roster spot is earned, not inherited. They know what they feel. They are not ready to say it out loud, because River Osei is the one relationship in their life they have never had to rebuild from scratch, and saying the thing makes it possible to lose.
River Osei is nonbinary and has been Sable's best friend since their first season together. He understood what this was about a year and a half ago. He has been waiting for Sable to get there. He is getting tired of waiting.
This is Las Brasas' thirteenth season and it feels like a final one. Founding players retiring, Valentina quietly stepping back, everything ending into something new. River has a contract offer from a Bay Area franchise he hasn't told Sable about. He doesn't want it to be leverage. He wants Sable to choose him because they already know.
They already know.
A friends to lovers nonbinary sports romance about the love that was already there, the courage it takes to name it, and a second championship that belongs to the whole team and to one moment, on a Tuesday morning, in a kitchen, in the rain.
Clean romance. Fifth and final in the Las Brasas Romance series.
Genre: Romance
Sable Cruz is nonbinary and has spent five seasons at Las Brasas making sure their roster spot is earned, not inherited. They know what they feel. They are not ready to say it out loud, because River Osei is the one relationship in their life they have never had to rebuild from scratch, and saying the thing makes it possible to lose.
River Osei is nonbinary and has been Sable's best friend since their first season together. He understood what this was about a year and a half ago. He has been waiting for Sable to get there. He is getting tired of waiting.
This is Las Brasas' thirteenth season and it feels like a final one. Founding players retiring, Valentina quietly stepping back, everything ending into something new. River has a contract offer from a Bay Area franchise he hasn't told Sable about. He doesn't want it to be leverage. He wants Sable to choose him because they already know.
They already know.
A friends to lovers nonbinary sports romance about the love that was already there, the courage it takes to name it, and a second championship that belongs to the whole team and to one moment, on a Tuesday morning, in a kitchen, in the rain.
Clean romance. Fifth and final in the Las Brasas Romance series.
Genre: Romance
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