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2026-10-12 01:07:47
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Fake Dating the arrogant hockey Captain The price of blood
Cole's POVI don't remember the drive.I remember the phone call. I remember Sophie's voice, fractured and distraught, on the line asking what happened and to get to the hospital and to hurry. I remember the road. I remember clutching the steering wheel so tightly I thought my hands might tear away.The corridor of the hospital was filled with the scent of antiseptic and dread."Where is she?" I said to the desk. "Lila Thompson. Where is she?""Sir, please, family only-""I'm her boyfriend.""Sir-""I'm her family."The nurse eased off. "Surgery, third floor, someone will get you."Mason and Sophie were already in the waiting room. Sophie's eyes were swollen. Mason, with elbows on his knees, holding his head, had nothing to say, was the sign of how bad it was. Mason always said something."What happened?" My voice came out hoarse.“A lighting rig fell,” Sophie whispered. “On stage. She was up on a ladder.”"Why was she on a ladder?""Maya told her to."The room tilted.My jaw clenche
Fake Dating the arrogant hockey Captain This can’t be happening to me!
Lila's POV"Let me show you something," said Sophie. "Just don't freak out, okay?""That's never the start of anything good."She spun her phone to face me. The headline completely took up the phone's screen, each word written in eye-searing capital letters: AURELIA'S NEWEST POWER COUPLE? COLE HARRISON AND MAYA HALE STEP OUT TOGETHER.Below was a photo. Cole in a fitted jacket. Maya's hand on his arm. Her head tilted on his shoulder as if it had a right to be there.I put my pencil on the desk with extreme care. "That's a photograph.""It's seventeen pictures.""It's just an angle.""Lila.""Photographs lie.""Not typically this much. In twelve of them," Sophie said, "she's staring at him like he's a collectible handbag.""And in how many is he watching her?"Sophie scrolled. Scrolled again. "... Zero. For the record. But he looks like a hostage in every single one of them.""That's something.""It's a very low bar.""I'm choosing to be reassured."I called him that night. He answered
Fake Dating the arrogant hockey Captain Image Conduct
Cole's POV"Again," said Dana Whitfield. "And this time, with love."I gazed into the camera eye. It gazed back, blank."I am so excited to be a part of the Aurelia family," I echoed."You look like you're being held hostage.""I'm thrilled.""You look like you're chewing nails." Dana, Aurelia's director of image strategy, was a tiny woman in a gray blazer. She had once made a six-foot-five goalie cry by showing him a spreadsheet. She tapped her tablet "Unclench your jaw. Relax your eyes. Picture the thing that makes you happy."I imagined Lila, asleep on my shoulder on a Sunday afternoon, a pencil still in her hand.My face must've softened."There," Dana said, startled. "That. Do that.""I can't do that on command.""But then figure out how to pull it off on time." She handed me the tablet. "Next. Press guidelines. Rule one: all personal relationships are cleared through the Image Department before they're mentioned on camera."I blinked. "Cleared?""Girlfriends, boyfriends, wives,
Fake Dating the arrogant hockey Captain Almost Normal
Lila's POV"Again," said Professor Calloway without looking at his score."From the top?""From the bridge. And Lila?""Yes?""Try playing it like you mean it."I took my hands off the piano and looked at him. "I do mean it.""Not well enough." At last, he lifted his grey head. "This piece is just static," he said, "Play it until it comes alive.""That's...remarkably specific feedback.""I'm a remarkably specific man."I laughed, flexed my fingers, and fell into the bridge. This time I let it get ugly. Dissonant notes bounced off each other, the left hand snarled beneath a melody that refused to give it enough room to breathe. When the last note hung in the air and dissolved into silence, the practice room was very still.Professor Calloway took off his glasses and pinched the bridge of his nose."Well," he said. "That will do.""Is that good?""That is the best thing anyone in this department has done in ten years. Don't let it go to your head.""Already too late.""All right. Have
Fake Dating the arrogant hockey Captain The Draft
Cole's POVThe so-called Aurelia Ice League building looked like someone had asked a bank to build a cathedral and then made it taller just because they could."Say it," Mason said, leaning out of the passenger side to speak."I am not saying it.""Say it, Harrison. You got drafted. First round. Say it aloud so the universe knows this isn't a dream.""I was drafted.""With feeling!"I said it louder with a smile. That dimple appeared again on his face before I knew what was happening, and he grinned at me before he suddenly bellowed so loudly the car windows rattled.Six weeks ago I'd been standing in a warehouse with my father's blood on my knuckles wondering if I'd ever be clean again. Now, I was parked outside top-of-the-line pro hockey ready to sign a contract upstairs.Life had a cruel, twisted sense of humour. At least, it was less unwelcome."Don't fumble it now," Mason said as I got out."Your confidence is overwhelming.""Just saying. You're allowed one personality here. Pic
Fake Dating the arrogant hockey Captain Forty years
Lila's POVThe police station had a burnt coffee aroma to it and kind of stunk like floor cleaner.I sat on a plastic chair in a white room with a blanket wrapped around me, that I didn't remember anyone giving me. On the other side of the desk, Detective Ruiz sat down to type my statement with two fingers. He typed slowly as if teaching himself how to defuse a bomb, one keystroke at a time."Take your time, Miss Thompson," he said."I've spent some time here already." I said, "I suppose I can spare you ten more minutes."He glanced up. The corner of his mouth twitched and, for the first time since the warehouse, I felt enough of whatever is in my chest loosened to admit a breath."Fair enough."Beside me, Grandma clung to my hand. A paramedic had examined her twice. She told him she was fine, then told him again (even less politely) when he advised a hospital."I've survived worse than being tied to a chair," she declared."Grandma, you've never been tied in a chair before now.""The
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