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ETHAN BREAKS
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OFF LIMITS: HIS BEST FRIEND'S MOTHER PUBLIC SCANDAL REVERSAL
ETHAN'S POVThe cameras were already waiting when I stepped out of the car.Flashes went off like lightning, blinding and relentless, bouncing off the black paint of the sedan and cutting through the winter air. Reporters shouted my name from behind the barricades, a hundred questions at once, their voices blurring into static.“Ethan, do you stand by your statement from last week?”“Are the allegations against your mother true?”“Do you still plan to play next season, or are you quitting?”I kept my head down, hands jammed into the pockets of my coat. The suit beneath it felt too tight, too formal, like armor I hadn’t earned. I’d spent all night rehearsing what I was going to say, rewriting, deleting, starting again. None of it felt right.But this morning, I stopped writing. I stopped hiding.Because this wasn’t about me anymore.This was about her.I walked toward the press table at the front of the conference room, the one the team had arranged at the last minute. The air was thic
OFF LIMITS: HIS BEST FRIEND'S MOTHER MOTHER AND SON
Olivia's Pov A soft knock pulled me out of my thoughts.My heart stumbled.For a moment, I didn’t move, afraid it was reporters or worse someone that wanted me dead. Then I crossed the room and opened the door.He stood there, rain-soaked, eyes tired, hands shoved into his pockets like he wasn’t sure if he was allowed to be here.“Ethan.”He didn’t speak. He just looked at me, really looked at me and I felt my breath catch.My baby boy looked older and drained. “Can I come in?” he asked finally, his voice low, rough around the edges.“Of course.”He stepped inside, leaving a trail of rainwater on the floor. I closed the door behind him, suddenly unsure what to say.The last time we’d been in an enclosed space, he’d been shouting and destroying things. I’d been crying.Now he was here, my baby boy was now in my home and I didn't know how to feel about it. “I heard what happened,” I said carefully. “At the rink.”He exhaled through his nose, shaking his head. “News travels fast.”“
OFF LIMITS: HIS BEST FRIEND'S MOTHER ETHAN BREAKS
Ethan’s POVI didn’t recognize the man in the mirror anymore.The dark circles. The clenched jaw. The storm behind my eyes.Three days since the hearing, and I still hadn’t been able to sleep. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw my mother standing there, trembling under those courtroom lights, trying to defend herself against things she didn’t even do.And every time, in the shadows of that memory, I saw her.Cassandra.Perfect smile.Perfect lies.The woman who’d once told me, “We’ll get through this, Ethan. Together.”Now I wasn’t sure if “together” ever meant the same thing for her as it did for me.It started with a headline that morning: “CARTER UNDER FIRE: New Allegations Surface — Possible Internal Leak.”No author credit. But I didn’t need one. The phrasing was pure Cassandra, viciously polite, made to hurt and disgrace my mom. I threw my phone onto the couch and ran a hand through my hair.She’d promised to stay out of it. Promised.And yet… she couldn’t stop twisting the kn
OFF LIMITS: HIS BEST FRIEND'S MOTHER THE HEARING
Olivia’s POVI stood in the corridor outside Room 3B, hands locked together so tightly I couldn’t feel my fingers. A few reporters had managed to sneak in despite the private listing; their whispers floated down the hallway like ghosts.Xander paced a few steps away, tie loosened, jaw tight. He looked ready to punch something or someone but there was nothing here to fight except the truth no one wanted to believe.“Breathe,” he said finally, stopping in front of me. “You’ve got this.”I tried to smile, but it didn’t reach. “You don’t believe that.”He studied my face, then sighed. “No. But I need you to.”His honesty was both the worst and best thing about him.The door opened. “Ms. Carter,” the assistant called. “They’re ready for you.”I nodded, my knees shaking so badly I thought they might give out.Inside, the hearing room felt smaller than I imagined. A long mahogany table divided the space—the disciplinary board on one side, the legal representatives on the other. Cameras were
OFF LIMITS: HIS BEST FRIEND'S MOTHER CASSANDRA'S DRASTIC MOVE
Olivia’s POVXander was still asleep on the couch, half-covered with the blanket I’d tucked around him sometime before dawn. His face looked softer in the gray light, the exhaustion eased for once. But something inside me couldn’t rest.My phone buzzed from the kitchen counter, an endless stream of notifications I’d been ignoring since last night. My name was trending again. I didn’t have to look to know it wasn’t good.I reached for it anyway.The first headline froze my breath. BREAKING: OLIVIA CARTER UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR FINANCIAL MISCONDUCT — SOURCES CLAIM EMBEZZLEMENT FROM TEAM FUNDSMy stomach dropped.No.I scrolled through the article, my pulse pounding in my ears. Words blurred together — forged invoices, unauthorized wire transfers, misappropriation of team assets. And attached were photos of “documents,” signed with my name, stamped with fake company seals.Except they looked real. Too real.My fingers went numb.This was Cassandra’s work. It had to be.The sound of Xa
OFF LIMITS: HIS BEST FRIEND'S MOTHER A GLIMMER OF HOPE
Xander’s POVThe whiskey burns on the way down.It’s not the first glass tonight. Or the second. Probably not even the third. The bartender stopped counting an hour ago, now he just refills when I lift my hand.The bar’s half-empty, a graveyard of neon lights and forgotten laughter. Music hums low from a corner speaker, some old song about love that didn’t survive the night.Fitting.I swirl the glass, watching the ice melt. My reflection stares back, hollow eyes, bruised pride, and the kind of exhaustion that no amount of sleep fixes. The kind that starts in your chest and eats its way out.“Another?” the bartender asks quietly.I nod. He pours without a word.When you’ve been publicly humiliated, betrayed by your own silence, and turned into the headline of every sports site in North America, the world stops looking you in the eye.Everyone knows. Everyone saw.The forbidden affair. The mother. The betrayal.I down another swallow, my throat raw. The liquid does nothing to blur the
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