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Chapter Twelve.
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Secretly Pucking The Hockey God. Chapter Twelve.
“Jessie... I can explain,” Maya said.Her heart was beating faster than it should have been. She'd known there was a chance this could happen the second she agreed to come tonight. There was no way she could show up at a charity gala on Hunter Callum's arm and somehow avoid running into her best friend.Jessie simply stood there with her arms crossed.“Okay,” she said. “Then explain.”Maya opened her mouth. She could tell Jessie. Maybe not everything, but enough for her to understand. Jessie had been her best friend for years. If there was one person she trusted to keep a secret, it was her.“It's just—”The words caught in her throat.Her gaze drifted across the room for only a second before she immediately regretted it.Holiday Winters was standing near one of the floor-to-ceiling windows on the opposite side of the ballroom, a champagne flute hanging loosely from her fingers.And she was staring directly at Maya.Maya's stomach immediately dropped.“Jessie... I—it’s not what you th
Secretly Pucking The Hockey God. Chapter eleven.
"So…"Chloe's smile hadn't moved an inch."Hunter Callum."Maya took a slow sip of champagne. "Is there a question in there somewhere?""Several actually." Chloe tilted her head. "Since when?""Since when what?""Since when are you and Hunter Callum…" she gestured between them, "...a thing?""We're private people."Chloe laughed. Bright and short. "Maya. Two days ago you were escorted out of Hart with a cardboard box. Tonight you're here." A glance toward Hunter. "With him.""People have weekends, Chloe.""Sure." She swirled her champagne slowly. "I just find the timing interesting.""Do you?""The interview gets pulled from you." Chloe paused. "And it turns out you've been dating the subject the whole time." Another pause. "That's quite a thing to leave out."There it was. Not an accusation. Just a sentence shaped exactly like one."I don't mix my personal life with work," Maya said. "You'd know that if we'd ever actually talked."Chloe's smile didn't waver. "We're talking now.""Are
Secretly Pucking The Hockey God. Chapter Ten.
Immediately the door opened, the world got very loud and very fast around her..The light hit her first. Not soft event lighting but the hard aggressive flash of cameras going off in rapid succession, a wall of it, and behind the light came the noise. People calling Hunter's name. Questions fired from every direction. The low roar of a crowd that had been waiting and had now gotten exactly what it came for.Maya's feet almost stopped moving.Almost.Hunter's hand found the small of her back with light pressure but was gone in a second."Don't stop walking," he said quietly. Close enough that nobody else caught it and only she could hear it.She kept walking.The cameras were relentless. She'd seen red carpets on screens her entire life and understood them the way you understand things you've never actually stood inside. This was different. This was flashes going off so fast they bled together and strangers calling her name even though she hadn't told anyone her name and the very speci
Secretly Pucking The Hockey God. Chapter Nine.
The stupid Callum 27 jersey had to go.That was Maya's first coherent thought stepping back into her bedroom. The second was that she had approximately three hours to transform from a woman who had spent the night in a hockey player's penthouse into someone who looked like she belonged on his arm in front of cameras.No pressure.She peeled the jersey off carefully and folded it without examining why she folded it instead of dropping it on the floor like everything else.Her phone was already buzzing.Jessie's name four times in a row.:Hey. Haven't seen you since yesterday. You okay?:Seriously, talk to me.:Also I know you can't come tonight and that's genuinely so unfair. You didn't deserve any of it.:I'll tell you everything tomorrow, okay? You're not missing much. Probably just Chloe in a better dress being insufferable as usual.Maya read them twice. Set the phone down. Picked it up again.:I'm okay. Promise. Have fun tonight.Sent it before she could think too hard about how e
Secretly Pucking The Hockey God. Chapter Eight.
There was something deeply unsettling about signing a contract and immediately being told you couldn't tell your mother about it.Maya stood there for a second after Holiday finished speaking, still holding the pen she'd signed away the next five months of her life with, trying to decide whether this qualified as the worst decision she'd ever made or merely the most expensive."No friends. No family. No exceptions."The words lingered unpleasantly.Not because she planned on announcing the arrangement to the world. That part made sense. Hunter Callum wasn't exactly a regular guy who could fake-date someone without attracting attention.But her mother?Jessie?Ethan?Holiday had said it so casually too.Like forbidding someone from discussing a legally binding fake relationship with their loved ones was perfectly normal behavior.Maybe in Hunter's world it was.That thought alone was irritating enough that Maya looked over at him.He was leaning against the opposite side of the room lo
Secretly Pucking The Hockey God. Chapter seven.
Maya glanced up at holiday, then at hunter, then back at the page.Her eyes stayed locked on the page like if she stared long enough, the words would rearrange themselves into something less insane.They didn’t.Clause Seventeen.Her grip tightened slightly around the pen in her hand.“What is this?” she asked again, quieter this time—but sharper.Holiday didn’t answer immediately.That alone told Maya everything she needed to know.The silence wasn’t confusion, it wasn’t hesitation either. It was calculation.Holiday closed the portfolio slowly, far too calmly for someone who had just watched a deal tilt off balance. Then she placed it back on the bed like she was deciding where to bury a body.Maya didn’t blink.“I asked you a question,” she said again, quieter now—but sharper.“What is Clause Seventeen?”For the first time since she walked into the room, Holiday didn’t look at her like a problem she could solve in five minutes.She looked at her like a problem she had already accou
Secretly Pucking The Hockey God. Chapter six.
Hunter stared at Holiday.Then at Maya.Then at the jersey.For approximately three seconds, genuine confusion sat plainly across his face before something shifted behind his eyes and the realization arrived."Uh." He held up a hand. "No. Absolutely not what you're thinking."Holiday's expression d
Secretly Pucking The Hockey God. Chapter five.
Maya stirred slowly to warmth pressed firmly against her back and an arm draped heavily across her waist beneath the blankets.For a few quiet seconds, she didn’t move.Hanger over effects. Her head felt heavy. Her thoughts slow and foggy beneath the lingering haze of alcohol while soft morning lig
Secretly Pucking The Hockey God. Chapter four.
“Hunter Callum?” Someone gasped from the crowd.It couldn't be him right?Maya stared at him through the flashing club lights, her tequila-soaked brain trying and failing to properly process what the hell was happening.Then she frowned. “No.”The man standing in front of her raised a brow slightly
Secretly Pucking The Hockey God. Chapter three.
“Jessie,” Maya muttered without looking up, “if you came back just to judge me some more, I want you to know our friendship is becoming toxic.” A low laugh sounded beside her. It didn't sound like Jessie. Definitely not Jessie. Maya paused for a second too long, her brain slightly delayed in catc
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