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LOVING MR HOCKEY STAR 178
Ronan's POV "You're not responsible. I'm choosing this." I squeezed her hand gently. "Maya, they're offering me my job back on the condition that I stay away from you. They didn't say it explicitly, but we both know that's the deal. Professional boundaries. Appropriate distance. Pretend what's between us doesn't exist.""Then take it," Maya said desperately. "Take the job, Ronan. You've earned it.""At what cost?" I asked. "Spending every day seeing you in the hallways, in classes, around campus, and pretending you're just another student? Watching you with Jaxon or whoever else you might date, knowing I gave up my chance because I was too scared to choose?""It's not about being scared. It's about being smart.""Maybe I'm tired of being smart," I said. "Maybe I want to be reckless for once. Maybe I want to choose love over career advancement and see what happens."Maya pulled her hand away. "You're romanticizing this. In six months, when you can't find another teaching position beca
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Ronan's POVThe email from Chancellor Morrison arrived at 7:03 AM on Monday morning.Professor Thorne,In light of recent revelations regarding the systematic harassment campaign against student Maya Cross, the university administration has completed its review of your conduct. We have determined that the accusations of favoritism and inappropriate conduct were based on falsified evidence and malicious intent.Your suspension has been lifted, effective immediately. Your position as Dean of Healing and Herbalife is hereby restored, along with full back pay and benefits. Furthermore, the university would like to issue a public apology for the damage to your reputation.Please schedule a meeting with my office at your earliest convenience to discuss your return.Sincerely, Chancellor Patricia MorrisonI should have felt relieved. Vindicated. Triumphant, even.Instead, I felt hollow.I'd gotten my career back, my reputation cleared, my position restored. Everything I'd worked years to bui
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Ashen's POV "Everything you'd expect," I said. "Lawsuits, criminal charges, going after my family's business, getting me expelled.""Will your family stand by you?" Miguel asked.My phone buzzed with a text from my father: You've destroyed everything we've built. Don't come home. You're no longer my son.I showed them the message."I'm sorry," Isabella said softly."Don't be," I said, though my voice cracked. "I knew this was coming. I just didn't realize it would hurt this much."My phone buzzed again. This time it was Maya: I just saw the article. Ashen, what you did... I don't have words. Thank you. But are you okay?I typed back: I will be. It was the right thing to do.Her response came quickly: You didn't have to do this. You didn't have to risk everything.Yes, I did, I wrote. I owed you better. I owed myself better.There was a long pause before her final message: For what it's worth, I forgive you. Not for what you did before, that still hurts. But for this? For standing up
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Ashen's POV "That's a conspiracy to commit harassment," Isabella said. "Possibly conspiracy to commit fraud, depending on how their lawyers try to spin the assault charge against Jaxon.""There's one more thing," I said, pulling up a video file. "Security footage from the student center that Victoria's private investigator obtained illegally. It shows her staging situations to make Maya look bad, then editing the footage to remove context before sharing it.""How did you get this?" Miguel asked."Victoria showed it to me, bragging about how clever she was." I looked down at my hands. "I pretended to be impressed and asked for a copy, saying I wanted to learn from her tactics. She was so arrogant she just gave it to me."Lyra shook her head in disbelief. "She really thought she was invincible.""She was," I said. "Until Maya refused to break."Isabella was downloading everything to her secure server, making multiple backups. "Ashen, once we publish this, your life is going to get very
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Ashen's POVI sat in my apartment at three in the morning, staring at the encrypted drive that contained everything, every conversation I'd recorded, every transaction I'd traced, every piece of evidence that would bury Victoria Sterling and her family's conspiracy.My phone buzzed. Another threatening text from an unknown number: Think carefully about what you're about to do, Whitmore. There are consequences for traitors.They knew. Somehow, the Sterling family had figured out I was planning to testify against them.I should have been scared. A year ago, I would have been. The Sterling family was powerful, connected, ruthless. Going against them meant becoming a pariah in the social circles I'd grown up in.But then I thought about Maya, the girl I'd betrayed, humiliated, broken for a stupid bet. The girl who'd somehow found the strength to stand up to forces much more powerful than her. If she could be brave, so could I.I picked up my phone and called Isabella Rodriguez."It's 3 AM
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Jaxon's POV "Professor Thorne," William Sterling said icily. "I'd be careful about involving yourself in this situation. Given your own history of inappropriate conduct with Ms. Cross, your defense of her looks rather suspicious."Ronan's jaw clenched, but he didn't back down. "I'm defending the truth. Something your family seems allergic to.""How dare you.." Catherine started."Everyone stop," Dean Matthews said, holding up his hands. "This situation needs to be handled properly. Victoria, go to the hospital and get treated. Maya, Jaxon, you're not banned from campus, but I strongly suggest you both retain legal counsel. This incident will be investigated thoroughly.""With Sterling family lawyers already spinning the narrative?" Isabella asked. "How fair do you think that investigation will be?""The university will conduct an impartial investigation," Matthews said, but his tone suggested even he didn't believe it.As the paramedics loaded Victoria onto a stretcher, she looked at
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