The Coach's Obsession
A Betrayal, Public Humiliation Sports RomanceBy Reese Calloway
Length8h 48m
About this audiobook
He is going to get those helmets. That is settled before he stands up, and it stays settled through everything the board, the town and the local press do to him afterwards.
The auditorium door slams behind a woman from the parent association and the echo bounces off linoleum turned glossy under fluorescent light. Declan O'Shea sits in the second row with his thigh against the hard plastic armrest, fingers drumming a silent count on his knee. Fourteen seconds until his name is called. Thirteen. Twelve.
The ceiling fan clicks overhead, off balance. Somebody in the back coughs into the silence.
*Next item. Coach O'Shea's request for helmet replacements.*
He is standing before the sentence finishes. His dress shoes pinch, worn to exactly two funerals and one wedding and never broken in. The leather creaks as he walks to the podium. He grips its edges, feels the grain of cheap wood under calloused palms, catches a splinter in his thumb and presses harder, because the small pain is useful.
Rhys is in that room too, and the reason Declan's count went wrong at fourteen has nothing to do with the agenda.
What follows: a boy in a hallway who should not have been alone, nettles and negotiations, the weight of a name in a town this size, a game face that stops working, salmon chowder eaten in company, closet doors, and jealousy that neither of them has the vocabulary for yet.
*How you process threat, how you process pain, how you process the fact that your body can betray you in an instant.*
Declan let him go. Told him to go, in fact. Kissed him on the forehead and said *I'll handle it*, and meant it, and was wrong about roughly half of what handling it would require.
He is going to get those helmets. By the time he does, the helmets are not remotely the point, and every person in that auditorium knows exactly who he is.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Gavel That Changed Everything
3Chapter 2 - The Boy in the Hallway
4Chapter 3 - Nettles and Negotiation
5Chapter 4 - The Weight of a Name
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6Chapter 5 - Game Face
7Chapter 6 - The Taste of Salmon Chowder
8Chapter 7 - Closet Doors
9Chapter 8 - Green-Eyed Coaching
10Chapter 9 - The Letter
11Chapter 10 - Can-Tag and Confessions
12Chapter 11 - Damage Control
13Chapter 12 - Mill at Dusk
14Chapter 13 - Secrecy’s Weight
15Chapter 14 - The Midpoint Commitment
16Chapter 15 - The Photograph
17Chapter 16 - Cracks in the Façade
18Chapter 17 - The Gala Rehearsal
19Chapter 18 - The Night Before
20Chapter 19 - The Empty Chair
21Chapter 20 - Gala in Chaos
22Chapter 21 - The Speech
23Chapter 22 - Fallout
24Chapter 23 - The Cost of Honesty
25Chapter 24 - The Long Road Back
26Chapter 25 - Leo’s Reckoning
27Chapter 26 - New Beginnings
28Chapter 27 - The Playoffs Game
29Chapter 28 - The Full Truth
30Epilogue
31The End
32About the Author
33Also by Reese Calloway
34Acknowledgements
35A Note from the Author
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