The Captain’s Cage
He waited ten years for the throne. Nobody told him it was a cage. Eighty thousand people are screaming his name, and Cole Barrett knows he did not earn a single....
He waited ten years for the throne. Nobody told him it was a cage. Eighty thousand people are screaming his name, and Cole Barrett knows he did not earn a single one. They hand him the captaincy under the stadium lights like a gift. The one he spent ten years on the bench begging for. It's a lie. His career was bought. His marriage is a trap, arranged to a woman raised to ruin him. And the legend who crowned him let one word slip that was never a compliment. Safe. The wife sent to spy on him is the only one who knows the truth. The family that built him is deciding when to burn him. Every snap, every cheer, is another lock sliding shut. Keep the crown and stay a prisoner. Or pull one thread and bring the whole cage down with everything he loves inside it. How much would you burn to stop being someone else's safe pair of hands?