He's the Captain. She's off-limits.
He’s the captain they hired to build something that lasts.
She’s the PR director hired to make sure no one burns it down.
Bennett Carr is thirty-five, fifteen years into a career that has no room for mistakes, and he just signed on as the first captain of the Jacksonville Admirals—an expansion franchise with everything to prove and a media microscope already pointed at it.
The plan is simple: keep his head down, build the room, and get to the playoffs.
Then Sienna Clarke walks into his press conference like she already owns the room—and his very straightforward plan develops a problem.
She’s sharp. Controlled. And exactly the kind of professional he has no business thinking about.
She’s also the only person in the building who treats him like a variable to manage instead of a captain to defer to—and he can’t stop noticing.
When a compliance review targets their working relationship and a reporter starts building a story designed to take them both down, the careful professional distance they’ve been maintaining stops being theoretical.
Now it’s documented. Reviewed. On the record.
The only question is how much they’re willing to lose.
