SOLVED. Childhood best friends. He’s adopted and they don’t see each other for years. Football/romance

[Brooke]

It’s a book about two childhood best friends in an awful home environment. Eventually their parents die and they’re put into foster care. He gets adopted and she is left behind. She ends up living with a teacher and an adopted sister with special needs who is also a victim of abuse. At her job as a waitress she ends up running into her best friend who is now a college football player. He wants back in her life but his mom isn’t keen.

[Brooke]

Found it.

[Danielle]

What was it? It sounds interesting.

[Brooke]

Pinky Promise by H.J. Bellus. It’s on kindle unlimited too!