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Chapter 6 — Before Your Girlfriend Finds Out

Author: Gbohunmi
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-07-15 15:13:46

Isabella

She watched Luca’s face change before she saw the screen the color draining out of it, his jaw going tight in a way she was starting to recognize meant something serious.

“Who is it?”

He turned the phone toward her without a word. Dominic Hale. We should talk. Before your girlfriend finds out the truth from somebody else.

Isabella read it twice. “He knows about the show.”

“Everyone knows about the show.” Luca’s thumb hovered over the screen, not typing, just staring. “He’s never texted
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    IsabellaThe red light blinked on, and there was no time left to call anyone back.Isabella watched from just off camera, close enough to catch Luca’s eye if he needed her, close enough to see the exact second his shoulders squared themselves into the posture she was starting to recognize as captain mode the same stillness he probably wore stepping onto the ice before a championship game.“Thank you for joining us,” the interviewer said, a calm, practiced woman named Renata Cole whom Suarez had vouched for personally. “Luca, there’s a lot the public doesn’t know about the incident that made you a national headline. Tonight, you and Marco Ibarra are here to change that. Where do you want to start?”Luca didn’t hesitate. “With an apology. Not for the check I’d make that decision again tomorrow. But for staying silent for as long as I did, because my silence let people believe the worst about a teammate who’d already been hurt enough.”Beside him, Marco’s hands were white-knuckled in his

  • The Hockey Captain’s Fake Girlfriend    Chapter 13 — His Version

    LucaThe studio lights felt suddenly very far away. Luca gripped the phone tighter, aware of Isabella watching him from across the room, her expression sharpening as she read something wrong in his face before he’d said a word.“There’s no footage of Marco being the aggressor,” Luca said, low, careful, aware of the producer still hovering a few feet away. “Because it never happened.”“Doesn’t have to have happened,” Hale said, unbothered. “Just has to look like it did. You’d be amazed what a good editor can do with enough angles and a rival program desperate enough to fund it. My father’s been sitting on this for weeks, waiting to see if you’d actually go public tonight. Congratulations. You just gave him his cue.”“Why are you calling me?”A pause, long enough that Luca almost thought the line had dropped. “Because I didn’t ask him to do this,” Hale said, and something in his voice shifted quieter, less certain, closer to the eighteen-year-old kid who’d once been Luca’s rival on the

  • The Hockey Captain’s Fake Girlfriend    Chapter 12 — Letterhead

    IsabellaThe statement was worse in full than the headline suggested. Isabella read it twice over Beckett’s shoulder, the too-formal language doing nothing to soften the accusation underneath it that Luca had committed unprovoked assault, that Ashford intended to pursue a full disciplinary hearing, that they were “confident the conference will act decisively to protect student-athlete safety.”Not one word about Dominic Hale’s stick connecting with Marco’s knee three times in one period. Not one word about Coach Holloway.“They’re moving first,” Luca said, jaw tight, staring at the screen like he could set it on fire through sheer will. “Before we can even get the interview out. If the disciplinary hearing gets scheduled before the truth about Holloway is public, it doesn’t matter what evidence Marco has the conference will see a formal complaint from Ashford and an unverified rumor from us.”“Then we don’t let it get scheduled first.” Isabella’s mind was already racing three steps ah

  • The Hockey Captain’s Fake Girlfriend    Chapter 11 — Twenty Minutes

    LucaSuarez picked up on the second ring, and Luca didn’t waste time on pleasantries.“Trent leaked unedited footage to the network. It airs in twenty minutes. Marco’s name is on it.”“He did what.” For the first time since Luca had known her, Marlene Suarez’s voice actually cracked with something like panic. “Give me five minutes. Don’t let anyone post anything, don’t let Marco talk to press, and for God’s sake keep Isabella off social media until I call you back.”The line went dead. Luca turned to find Isabella already ignoring that last instruction, thumb flying across her phone screen, typing something to Priya with the focused fury of a woman assembling a legal defense in real time.“What are you doing?”“Buying us time.” She didn’t look up. “I’m telling Priya to get every English department group chat, every honors college listserv, every account she has access to primed to flood the comments the second this airs, calling out the editing the moment it happens. If Trent’s going

  • The Hockey Captain’s Fake Girlfriend    Chapter 10 — Backup Footage

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  • The Hockey Captain’s Fake Girlfriend    Chapter 9 — What Coach Harrelson Knows

    LucaCoach Harrelson didn’t sit. He stood at the head of the boathouse’s single scarred table, arms crossed, looking at all four of them Luca, Isabella, Marco, and Trent, whose phone he’d confiscated with a single unbothered hand like a man deciding how much truth a room could survive at once.“I’ve known about Holloway for two weeks,” he said. “I didn’t say anything because I didn’t have proof, and because the second this becomes public, it stops being about protecting Marco and starts being a war between two athletic programs with lawyers involved.”“Two weeks?” Luca’s voice cracked with disbelief. “You knew and you let me sit through Suarez’s ultimatum, the show, all of it”“I let you go through the process because the process was the only thing keeping you eligible while I worked this from the other side.” Harrelson’s eyes cut to Trent. “And you. You’ve been sniffing around Marco for a story since week one, and you didn’t think to bring what you found to me first?”Trent, to his c

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