All Chapters of The Hockey Playboy's Plus Size Obsession : Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

Chapter 15Glass shattered in the sink. My heart shattered with it.Rook moved fast. He was at my side before I could pick up the first piece. "Stop," he said, grabbing my wrist. "You'll cut yourself.""I broke it," I said. My voice sounded empty. "The bowl. The rule. Everything.""It's a bowl, Mara," he said."Not the bowl," I said. I looked up at him. "The video. Vanessa has us. One second. That's all it takes."He let go of my wrist, slow. "Yeah."We stood there in the kitchen with water running and glass in the sink and Lily asleep down the hall. The apartment was too quiet again."Helen's on her way," he said. "She saw it too. Vanessa's lawyer emailed it to the judge's clerk as a supplemental filing. Says it shows an inappropriate relationship between custodial parent and live in nanny during active proceedings.""I'm not live in," I said."Tell that to TMZ," he said. He didn't sound mad. Just tired. "They ran the video ten minutes ago. Headline says HAND HOLD SEALS NANNY ROMANCE

Chapter 17The link on my phone burned my eyes, and I did not click it because I already knew that the headline would be enough to make my stomach drop. I did not have to open it to understand that the private photos had been posted, and I knew that the moment I saw them would be the moment everything changed for Lily and for Rook and for me.Rook read the headline over my shoulder, and his whole body went still before he picked up my phone and threw it because he needed to do something with his hands. The phone hit the wall and cracked, and it landed on the tile with a sound that reminded me of the bowl breaking in the sink earlier that night."Mara," he said, and his voice was flat in a way that scared me more than yelling ever would."Don't," I said because I could see the words forming in his head. "Do not say anything right now. Do not do anything right now. Just do not make this worse."He stared at the broken phone on the floor. "Helen said they had the woman. She said the pho

Chapter 19 The video of Rook with a red dot on his forehead kept replaying in my head, and I could not make my hands stop shaking long enough to hold my phone properly. I called Helen immediately because she told me to call her the second anything new happened, and I knew that a threat with a laser pointer was not something we could ignore until morning. Helen answered on the second ring, and she sounded awake even though it was almost midnight, which made me think that she had not gone to bed at all. I told her about the video, and I told her about the text that said accidents could happen and that I should keep Rook away from Lily and away from me. She told me to forward the video right now and to lock my hotel door and not to open it for anyone except the police or her. I forwarded the video with fingers that felt too cold, and Helen was quiet for ten seconds after she opened it, and then she said that she was calling her contact at the police department and that I needed to call

Chapter 21The hotel phone was still buzzing in my hand when Helen called my cell, and her voice was calm in a way that told me she already knew what happened. She told me that the police traced the call to the lobby phone in my old hotel, and that the person who made it was the same security guard named Mark, and that they arrested him ten minutes ago in the parking garage with a burner phone and a stack of printed photos.I asked her what the photo of my mom's bakery meant, and she said that it was not what I thought it was, and that my mom had taken the plywood down herself this morning and had a painter put up a closed forever sign as a joke to scare Derek if he came back. She said that my mom sent her a picture an hour ago laughing about it, and that the person who threatened me just reused a photo my mom posted on Facebook because he was watching my social media.I felt my shoulders drop for the first time in three days, and I told Helen that I was tired of being scared, and s

Chapter 23The phone was still ringing in Rook's hand, and the cold air made my nose sting while I waited to hear what Helen had to say. I told him to answer it quickly because Helen never called on Saturdays unless something important happened, and I was afraid that good news would get cold if we waited too long.Rook answered and put it on speaker so I could hear, and Helen said that she had news and that it was actually good for once. She said that Judge Morales reviewed the police reports about Mark and the blog and the bakery, and that she was satisfied that Rook and I were not responsible for the harassment and that we followed her order exactly. Helen said that the judge was willing to move the full custody review up from sixty days to thirty days because of our cooperation and because Lily's therapist wrote a letter saying that Lily was thriving with the current arrangement.I asked if that meant that I could come home sooner, and Helen said that it meant that the review would