Rory
Jarvis shut the rumor down so hard it almost made things worse.
It happened the next morning, before practice, the locker room still riding the residual energy of yesterday's teasing. Someone — I didn't catch who, and honestly didn't want to — made a joke as I walked in, something about "the Sterling situation" loud enough to draw laughs from the guys nearby, and I was already bracing to deflect it myself when Jarvis's voice cut across the room like a blade.
"Enough."
One word. Flat, hard, nothing like his usual easy captaincy, the kind of tone that made even the guys who hadn't been paying attention snap their heads up.
"It was just a joke, Cap—"
"I don't care what it was." Jarvis crossed the room, and for a second I thought he might actually get in the guy's face about it, som
