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Chapter 22 — Bloodwork
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The Hockey Captain’s Fake Girlfriend Chapter 24: The Board Room
IsabellaIsabella had never seen Luca drive angry before.He didn't speed, exactly. He just made every yellow light feel like a personal challenge, both hands locked on the wheel, jaw set so hard she could see the muscle jump. Trent's laptop sat in her lap like something alive."They can't strip your captaincy," she said. "You were cleared. The conference cleared you.""The conference cleared me of assault. The board can say whatever it wants about 'leadership standards.'" His voice was flat. "Three hours ago I was a hero on live TV. They'll say that's exactly the problem. Too much attention, too much chaos.""Then we give them something louder than chaos."She tapped the laptop. Luca glanced at it, then at her, and some of the rigidity eased out of his shoulders."You should be with Nico," he said quietly. "I can do this alone.""Elena practically shoved me out the door. She said if I sat in that chair one more hour worrying, she'd have two patients." Isabella reached over and laid h
The Hockey Captain’s Fake Girlfriend Chapter 23 — Twenty Minutes of Footage
Luca“Absolutely not,” Luca said, reading the text over Isabella’s shoulder, his exhaustion burning off instantly into something sharper. “He’s not getting anywhere near you. Not after tonight.”“He fabricated evidence against Marco, got fired for it, and now he wants to meet me alone in a parking lot at five in the morning.” Isabella’s thumb hovered over the screen, torn. “This has ‘trap’ written all over it.”“So we don’t go.”“Or,” Isabella said slowly, “we go together, in public, somewhere with actual witnesses, and find out what he actually knows before some anonymous story about my mom’s financial situation goes live and destroys everything Suarez fixed six hours ago.” She looked up at him. “If there’s a real threat to the hardship fund, I’d rather know about it from Trent than read about it in a headline.”Luca hated that she was right. “Fine. But we tell Suarez first, and we meet him somewhere with cameras of our own. If he wants to play games, we make sure there’s a record of
The Hockey Captain’s Fake Girlfriend Chapter 22 — Bloodwork
IsabellaThe doctor’s office was small, cramped, the kind of room designed for delivering exactly this sort of conversation quiet, private, close enough to hold someone’s hand if they needed it.“Nico’s stable,” Dr. Amara said, sliding into the chair across from them, tablet balanced on her knee. “The fainting episode was triggered by significantly low blood sugar, likely compounded by skipped meals over an extended period. But the bloodwork also flagged something we want to look into more closely his glucose levels have been unusually erratic even accounting for the fasting, which sometimes points to something underlying rather than purely nutritional.”Elena’s hand tightened around Isabella’s. “Underlying like what?”“We won’t know for certain until we run additional tests, which I’d like to schedule for early next week, once he’s stabilized and eating regularly again.” Dr. Amara’s voice was calm, measured, careful not to alarm without cause. “For tonight, the most important thing i
The Hockey Captain’s Fake Girlfriend Three Hours Away
IsabellaEverything after that call happened in fragments Luca already sliding off the tailgate, already pulling out his own phone; Beckett appearing from somewhere with car keys in hand before Isabella had even finished explaining; the diner’s neon sign blurring past the truck window as they pulled out of the lot faster than she’d ever seen Beckett drive.“It’s three hours,” Isabella said, phone gripped so tight her knuckles had gone white. “Three hours to get home, and I don’t even know what’s wrong yet, my mom just said he collapsed and they don’t know why”“Hey.” Luca’s hand found hers in the back seat, steady, grounding. “Breathe. We’re going to be there as fast as we can.”“You don’t have to come.” She said it automatically, the same reflex that had made her insist she didn’t need his jacket at the boathouse, didn’t need his help with the stipend, didn’t need anyone’s help with anything if she could possibly avoid it. “You have practice tomorrow, you have the show, you have”“Is
The Hockey Captain’s Fake Girlfriend Chapter 20 — After
LucaIsabella didn’t check her phone again until they were sitting on the tailgate of Beckett’s truck outside Levi’s Diner, milkshakes forgotten and melting between them, the adrenaline of the night finally starting to ebb into something closer to bone-deep exhaustion.“You’re quiet,” Luca said, nudging her shoulder with his. “That’s new for you.”“I’m processing.” She turned her phone over in her hands without unlocking it. “Twelve hours ago I was grading Gatsby essays. Now I’m apparently in a real relationship, defending a hardship fund, and somehow the most normal part of my night was finding out my fake boyfriend’s rival has a conscience.”“When you put it like that, it does sound like a lot.”“It’s a lot.” But she was smiling when she said it, small and disbelieving, and Luca found himself watching the curve of her mouth instead of the diner lights reflecting off the truck’s windshield. “I keep waiting to feel regret. About tonight. About saying what I said on camera. It hasn’t c
The Hockey Captain’s Fake Girlfriend Chapter 19 — Conflict of Interest
IsabellaIsabella read the email a third time, hoping the words might rearrange themselves into something less catastrophic. They didn’t.“They’re freezing my stipend,” she said, voice flatter than she meant it to be, shock working its way through her slower than it should have. “Because of tonight. Because of” she gestured vaguely between them, throat tightening “this. Us. Whatever we are now.”Luca took the phone gently from her hand and read it himself, jaw tightening with every line. “This is insane. You didn’t do anything wrong. You told the truth on camera.”“I told the truth about being in a real relationship with the person whose scholarship narrative I was hired to support.” Isabella pressed the heels of her hands against her eyes, exhaustion and panic tangling together until she could barely separate them. “That’s exactly the kind of thing that reads as a conflict of interest to a financial aid office that doesn’t care about nuance. They’re going to say I compromised the int
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