The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)

by Nora Sakavic

"Destroy him," he said. Neil felt like he'd been waiting for this all his life. "Yeah."

Andrew smiled around the mouth of his bottle. "Neil is a walking tragedy." "You're a pretty pathetic sob story yourself," Wymack said.

"Oh, how cliché," Andrew said, sounding almost delighted by this turn of events. "Maybe this will be fun after all. Come on, Kevin. Let's not keep them waiting." All the blood had left Kevin's face, but he followed close behind Andrew.

"You know, I get it," Neil said. "Being raised as a superstar must be really, really difficult for you. Always a commodity, never a human being, not a single person in your family thinking you're worth a damn off the court—yeah, sounds rough. Kevin and I talk about your intricate and endless daddy issues all the time."

"His antagonism is a personality flaw we're learning to live with," Kevin said.

"Here's a real question: how have you survived this long when you're so violently self-destructive?"

"He's got a really shiny car for a minister," Andrew said. "I'm going to humble it."

Kevin's kind of a full-time job."

"This isn't a team," Neil said. "It's a cult."

"You are one seriously fucked-up individual," Neil said.