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Chapter 7 — The Meeting Point
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2026-07-15 21:01:42
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The Hockey Captain’s Fake Girlfriend Chapter 7 — The Meeting Point
LucaNeither of them slept.They sat in the library until it closed, then moved to the twenty-four-hour diner two blocks off campus not Levi’s, somewhere with worse coffee and no cameras and picked apart the anonymous email until the words stopped making sense from repetition.“It could be Trent,” Isabella said, for the fourth time, turning her mug in slow circles. “He has access to everything. He has motive this exact kind of chaos is good for ratings.”“It could be Hale,” Luca countered. “Trying to rattle me into confessing something before he even has proof.”“Or it could be someone we haven’t thought of yet.” She looked up at him, tired, sharp even at 3 a.m. “Whoever it is, they used the word boyfriend in quotes. They know we’re fake. That narrows it down to people close to the production, or close to Suarez’s office.”Luca’s jaw tightened. “Or someone on the team.”Neither of them said Beckett’s name out loud, because neither of them believed it, but the possibility sat between t
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