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Author: FRANKOPHONE
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-18 08:45:18

Victoria's POV

I adjusted my Hermès scarf and checked my reflection in my phone camera before walking into the upscale café off campus. Everything had to be perfect for this meeting. My blonde hair was styled in effortless waves, my makeup was flawless but natural-looking, and my designer outfit screamed wealth and sophistication, everything Maya Blackwood would never be.

The photos from last night's chapel incident were already spreading like wildfire across social media. Maya and Professor Blackthorne caught in a passionate embrace, confirming what everyone already suspected about their inappropriate relationship. It was almost too easy.

But I needed more than just another scandal. I needed Maya completely destroyed, her reputation so thoroughly ruined that no man, especially not Ronan, would ever want her again. And Prince Ashen Whitmore was going to help me do it, whether he knew it or not.

I spotted him at a corner table, looking brooding and handsome despite the bruises from his
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  • LOVING MR HOCKEY STAR   144

    Lyra's POV Maya looked at me like I'd lost my mind. "What?""I've been watching her campaign against you from the beginning. I know what she's been doing – the harassment, the manipulation, the way she's been systematically destroying your reputation. And I know she's planning something bigger.""How could you possibly know that?"I pulled out my phone and showed her a screenshot of a group chat I'd been added to months ago. "Victoria recruited me. She thought because of our history, because of what I did to you, that I'd be willing to help her finish the job."Maya stared at the messages on my screen, Victoria coordinating harassment campaigns, planning to release more damaging information, discussing ways to drive Maya to a complete breakdown."You've been in this chat this whole time?" Maya's voice was hollow. "You've been watching her plan my destruction and you said nothing?""I never participated," I said quickly. "I never contributed information or helped with any of her schem

  • LOVING MR HOCKEY STAR   143

    Lyra's POV She stared at me for a long moment, and I saw a dozen emotions flicker across her face – surprise, hurt, anger, and something that might have been hoped before she shut it down."I don't think we have anything to say to each other," she said finally, turning back to her laptop."Maya, please. I know I have no right to be here, but..""No, you don't." She spun back around, and now I could see the full extent of what the past few months had done to her. She was thinner, paler, with dark circles under her eyes that spoke of sleepless nights and constant stress. "You have no right to be here, no right to talk to me, no right to anything from me.""I know that." I took a hesitant step into the room. "But I couldn't stay away anymore. Not after watching what happened at the festival.""Oh, so now you care?" Maya's voice was bitter. "After months of radio silence, after letting me deal with everything alone, now you suddenly develop a conscience?""I've always cared," I said desp

  • LOVING MR HOCKEY STAR   142

    Lyra's POVI stood outside Maya's dorm building for twenty minutes before I finally worked up the courage to go inside. My hands were shaking as I clutched the coffee and bag of her favorite chocolate chip cookies I'd brought as peace offerings, pathetic gestures that could never make up for what I'd done, but I had to start somewhere.The viral videos of Maya's breakdown at the Spring Festival had been playing on repeat in my mind for the past three days. Her desperate screams, her collapse, the way she'd begged everyone to just leave her alone. I'd watched it happen from across the quad, too much of a coward to intervene, and the guilt had been eating me alive ever since.I'd caused this. Not directly, maybe, but I'd set the first domino falling when I betrayed her with Ashen all those months ago. Everything that had happened to her since – the trust issues, the desperate need for connection that led her to Professor Blackthorne and Jaxon, the vulnerability that Victoria Sterling ha

  • LOVING MR HOCKEY STAR   141

    Maya's POV "She's not yours!" I screamed.The words came out louder than I'd intended, silencing the crowd around us. Every phone camera was pointed at me, every livestream was recording, but I couldn't stop the words from pouring out."I'm not anybody's! I'm not a prize to be won or a problem to be solved! I'm not your redemption story or your forbidden romance or your damsel in distress!"Tears were streaming down my face now, and I could hear the crowd murmuring, but I didn't care anymore. Everything I'd been holding in for months was exploding out of me."I can't breathe without someone analyzing it! I can't eat lunch without someone filming it! I can't have a conversation without it ending up on social media! And now you're all here, fighting over me like I'm some kind of object, making everything worse!""Maya, please calm down," Ronan said gently, reaching toward me."DON'T!" I backed away from his outstretched hand. "Don't tell me to calm down! Don't try to fix me! Don't pret

  • LOVING MR HOCKEY STAR   140

    Maya's POV The Spring Festival was supposed to be fun. It was supposed to be a normal college event where students could forget about exams and drama for one afternoon. Food trucks lined the main quad, local bands played on a makeshift stage, and booths sold everything from handmade jewelry to club merchandise. I should have stayed in my room. But Quinn had begged me to come, insisting that hiding would only make things worse. "You can't let Victoria win by making you afraid to live your life," she'd said. So here I was, trying to blend into the crowd while wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap like some kind of celebrity in hiding. It was working for about twenty minutes. I managed to buy a coffee and a sandwich without anyone recognizing me, and found a quiet spot under a tree where I could watch the festivities without being the center of attention. For a brief, wonderful moment, I felt almost normal. Then I saw him. Ronan was walking across the quad with a group of faculty mem

  • LOVING MR HOCKEY STAR   139

    Ashen's POV "So this is guilt," she said flatly. "You're helping me to assuage your conscience.""Partly," I admitted. "But mostly it's because you deserve better. You deserved better from me, and you deserve better than Victoria's psychological warfare. You're the strongest, most genuine person I've ever known, Maya. And if I can use my privilege and connections to protect you this time instead of destroying you, then maybe I can live with myself."She stared at me for a long moment, studying my face like she was looking for lies or hidden motives. "What would exposing Victoria require from me?""Complete trust," I said honestly. "You'd have to work with me, let me help coordinate the evidence release, and probably face some media attention when the story breaks. And..." I hesitated. "It would mean trusting the person who hurt you most to protect you from someone else trying to hurt you.""The irony isn't lost on me," Maya said bitterly."I know how impossible this must seem. I know

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