Double Team
An MM Sports Romance
by Jace Wilder
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Pairing: MM (Polyamory)
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Two Tops + Third, Friends to Lovers, Fake Dating, Forced Proximity, Praise Kink
Two dominant tops. One impossible attraction. A third who changes everything.
Marcus Thorne has spent his life in control. As captain of Summit University’s basketball team, he’s led them to national prominence through discipline, focus, and an iron will. The last thing he needs is a distraction—especially one shaped like his co-captain and best friend.
Nico Rivera plays like he lives: reckless, brilliant, and impossible to ignore. He’s wanted Marcus for three years, but their chemistry off the court has one fatal flaw. They’re both tops. Every attempt at more has ended in frustration, neither willing to yield.
When a chance encounter with Leo Chen—a confident pre-med student who knows exactly what he wants—shows them a third way, everything changes. Suddenly, the impossible becomes possible. The competition becomes collaboration. And two men who thought they couldn’t work discover that the best plays are the ones you run together.
But secrets have a cost.
With a championship on the line, coaches watching their every move, and a morals clause that could destroy everything, Marcus and Nico must decide: Is love worth the risk? Or will the pressure of the spotlight tear them apart before they ever get their shot?
You’ll love this if you enjoy:
✓ Two dominant tops who find their solution in a third
✓ College basketball with high-stakes tournament drama
✓ Fake dating subplot (Chloe as cover)
✓ Polyamorous relationship with a skilled facilitator
✓ Forced proximity in hotel rooms and locker rooms
✓ Explicit scenes with emotional depth
✓ Championship heartbreak leading to relationship triumph
✓ Guaranteed HFN with series promise
⚠️ Content Warning
This book contains explicit MM sexual content including threesomes, praise kink, marking/claiming, fingering, oral, and polyamorous dynamics. There are also themes of closeted athletes, career pressure, near-miss exposure, and one consensually uncomfortable hookup that is stopped when boundaries are crossed. The championship game is lost, but the relationship wins.
Reader discretion advised. This book is intended for mature audiences only.
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Chapter One: The Court
The ball hit the hardwood with a crack that echoed through the empty gym like a gunshot.
Marcus Thorne didn’t flinch. He’d been running this drill for fifteen years, since before he could see over the rim, since the courts in Detroit were the only place that felt like home. Crossover. Behind the back. Between the legs. The ball was an extension of his body, moving on instinct while his eyes tracked everything else.
Ten players spread across the court. Two assistant coaches with clipboards. The afternoon light cutting through the high windows of the Summit University Athletic Center, painting gold stripes across the forest green floor.
And Nico Rivera, twenty feet away, bouncing on the balls of his feet like he couldn’t stand still if someone paid him.
“Thorne!” Coach Dalton’s voice cracked across the gym. “Run it again. Davis, you’re a half-second slow on the rotation. Half a second gets us killed in March.”
Marcus caught the ball, held it against his hip, and nodded once. He didn’t need to look at Nico to know exactly where he’d be when the play started. Three years of running together had burned that knowledge into his bones.
He slapped the ball twice—their signal—and the world narrowed to mathematics. Angles, distances, timing. Davis cut left. Thompson set the screen. And Nico—
Nico did something stupid.
Instead of curling around Thompson’s screen to the three-point line like the play demanded, he drove straight into the paint, weaving between two defenders with a behind-the-back dribble that had no business working. His body twisted, airborne, hanging for an impossible moment before he kissed the ball off the glass and through the net.
Showoff.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this book part of a series?
Double Team is the first book in the Summit University series. It has an HFN (happy for now) ending with the relationship solidified and future plans in place. Nico’s story continues in Triple Threat, coming soon.
How spicy is this book?
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — This is a 5/5 heat level book with explicit MM content including threesomes. Features include two-tops-finding-a-solution dynamics, marking/claiming, praise kink, and emotionally-charged intimacy.
Is there a happily ever after?
Yes! Marcus, Nico, and Leo get their HFN with the relationship established and thriving. The championship game is lost, but the real victory is the love they build together. The epilogue shows them three months later, planning their future.
What’s the relationship dynamic?
Marcus and Nico are both dominant tops who can’t figure out how to be together sexually—until they meet Leo, a confident bottom who becomes both their solution and an equal partner in the relationship. This is polyamory, not just a third for sex.
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