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DARIOThe game was a disaster. We lost by four runs, and judging by the mood in the press area, you would have thought someone had died. I wasn’t particularly bothered. Losing wasn’t unusual in sports. What mattered was what we got afterward.Rico was already speaking to one of the players when I noticed the team gathering around the media entrance. “We got the interview,” he said, turning toward me. “Exclusive. He agreed to meet us at the players’ hotel.”I nodded. “Good.”I looked across the field. Indigo was standing with Caleb, reviewing something on her phone. She laughed at whatever he said, and Caleb leaned closer so she could hear him over the noise coming from the stadium. My jaw tightened.“Indigo.” She turned immediately. “You’re with us.”She nodded, picked up her notebook and camera, and walked over. Rico was still giving instructions to one of the production guys, so I headed toward the reserved parking area with Indigo beside me. Neither of us said anything. The stadiu

INDIGOI slipped the phone back into my pocket and continued walking. A few minutes later I spotted an ice cream truck. I bought a cone for myself and two bagels—one for Leah. Because if she was coming all the way here, she could at least eat. I found a bench overlooking the park and sat down. The ice cream was already melting slightly around the edges. I licked it.Maybe I should tell her. Maybe she deserved to know. Maybe keeping something this big from her was worse than telling her. But then I pictured her face—the way she smiled at Dario at the airport, the way she had talked about their future. She trusted me. And as long as it didn’t happen again, she didn’t need to know. I wasn’t going to let it happen again. Dario was my boss and her man. He was nothing more to me.I took another lick of my ice cream. Ten or fifteen minutes later, someone dropped a half-full bottle of water onto the bench beside me. I knew who it was before she spoke.“Hey, you.” She sat down and immediate

INDIGOKelsey barely gave us time to get back to the hotel. The moment Leah and I stepped through the reception, she caught both of our hands and started pulling us toward the exit.“Where are we going?” Leah asked, laughing as she tried to keep up.“The players invited us for drinks. Everyone is already at the pub.”Leah looked at me. I gave her a look that probably said everything. I wasn’t really in the mood for another crowd after the day we’d had, but Kelsey didn’t look like someone who was particularly interested in hearing no.“It’ll be fun,” she insisted, pulling me along. “And we’re in Miami. You’re not going to spend the whole trip working.”“I wasn’t planning to.”“You were absolutely planning to.”Leah laughed. “She’s right.”Of course she was. The pub wasn’t far from the hotel. It was just a short walk down the street, and the closer we got, the louder the music became. Even from outside, we could hear people cheering and laughing over the bass coming from inside. I was a

DARIOI had gone back to the hotel last night intending to interrupt whatever was happening between Indigo and Caleb. I told myself it was because I wanted to speak to my brother about the schedule for the following morning, but that would have been a lie. I watched Indigo leave the pub with Caleb, her hand in his, and I had spent the next several minutes trying not to think about what they might be doing upstairs. Eventually, irritation had won.I was on my way to the room when I heard her voice. I couldn’t make out the other person’s words, but I could hear Indigo clearly enough. She was crying. I stopped without meaning to. The hallway was quiet, and her voice carried through it. I couldn’t hear everything she was saying, only pieces, but I heard enough to know she was talking about a man she liked—a man she wasn’t sure she could have because of everything surrounding them. I stood there listening until I heard her laugh through her tears and say that she liked him a lot. I knew i