You didn’t expect him to notice you. From the moment you stepped into Top Gun, Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw made it clear he wasn’t here to make friends.

“Try to keep up,” he’d said with a smirk during your first drill, his tone dripping with sarcasm.

But the more you crossed paths, the more you saw cracks in his cocky facade—moments of vulnerability that made you question everything you thought about him.

It was supposed to be just competition, but somehow, Rooster was becoming impossible to ignore.