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Chapter 91 — Damian’s Promise

SKY’S POV Damian requested a meeting through official channels two days later, the formality of it immediately putting me on guard given everything Reyes and Marchetti had already uncovered. We met in a small conference room, no HR observer this time, just the two of us, the same room where he’d once told me I’d won and I’d walked away wondering what he actually meant by it. “I wanted to check in,” he said, settling into the chair across from me. “Given everything you’ve navigated this season. The organization values your resilience, Sky. I hope you understand that, regardless of whatever tension has existed between us personally.” “That’s a generous framing, given your suspension.” “My suspension is a separate matter, currently under continued review. This conversation isn’t about that.” He folded his hands on the table, carefully neutral in his posture. “I wanted to discuss the organization’s long-term planning. Standard practice, this time of year.” • “Long-term planning,”

Last Updated : 2026-09-14

Chapter 92 — The Informant’s Doubt

SKY’S POV The next photograph arrived three days after my conversation with Damian, later at night than any of the previous ones, timestamped in a way that made me notice something odd once I actually looked closely at it. It showed Amira and me leaving a quiet restaurant, nothing especially damning on its own, the kind of image that could have been taken by anyone with a phone and bad intentions. What struck me wasn’t the content. It was the gap between the timestamp embedded in the file and the time it had actually reached my phone — nearly six hours, an unusually long delay for someone apparently determined to keep us under close, patient watch. • I mentioned the delay to Reyes the next morning, turning it over out loud, trying to understand what it might mean. “Could be nothing,” he said. “Could just be someone deciding what time felt right to send it, rather than sending it the moment they took it.” “Or it could mean they hesitated. Sat on it a while before deciding to act

Last Updated : 2026-09-15

Chapter 93 — The First Crack in the Conspiracy

SKY’S POV I started noticing the same figure in different locations that week, distant enough each time that I couldn’t be fully certain it was the same person, but consistent enough that the pattern eventually became impossible to dismiss entirely as coincidence. Once outside my apartment building, early morning, gone by the time I’d finished tying my shoes and gotten to the window for a second look. Once near the arena parking lot, a build I half-recognized without being able to place exactly why. Once, more unsettling than the others, near the small bookstore café where Amira and I had first agreed to stop waiting, months earlier. • I mentioned it to Marchetti during a quiet moment after practice, careful about how I phrased it, not wanting to sound as paranoid as I privately worried I might actually be becoming. “I keep seeing someone,” I said. “Different places, always at a distance, gone before I can get a good look. Probably nothing. Might just be me getting jumpy after e

Last Updated : 2026-09-15

Chapter 94 — The Wrong Suspect

SKY’S POV I didn’t sleep that night, the parking lot photograph circled endlessly through my thoughts until the shape I’d half-recognized finally settled into something I could no longer talk myself out of. Calvin. The jacket, the posture, the particular way he carried his weight — I’d watched him move through a hundred locker rooms, a hundred practices, without ever once suspecting the man beside me might also be the man in that grainy security still. I found him alone the next morning, early enough that most of the team hadn’t arrived yet, catching him near his stall before anyone else could overhear. • “We need to talk,” I said. “Privately.” A shift moved across his expression immediately, a flicker of alarm quickly smoothed over into careful neutrality, though not quickly enough that I missed it entirely. “About what?” “About a photograph. Taken outside a café two nights ago. By someone whose jacket looked a lot like one I’ve seen you wear more than once.” We stepped int

Last Updated : 2026-09-16

Chapter 95 — The Franchise

SKY’S POV Calvin gave me the link before I left the equipment room, his hands shaking as he wrote it down on a scrap of paper rather than risk it appearing anywhere digital that might later be traced back to him. “I don’t know what you’ll find,” he said. “I’ve never actually opened it beyond uploading what I was told to upload. I was too scared to look deeper.” I took the paper without a word, understanding that whatever came next would need careful hands, not the raw anger I was currently fighting to contain. “What happens to me now,” Calvin asked, quiet, before I turned to leave. “Once you take this further.” “I don’t know yet,” I said honestly. “I’m not going to protect you from consequences you’ve earned. I’m also not going to pretend I don’t understand, at least partly, how someone ends up somewhere like this without ever meaning to travel that far.” • Reyes and Marchetti met me at Reyes’s house that evening, the same kitchen table where Amira had first told us about Dami

Last Updated : 2026-09-16

Chapter 96 — Damian’s Ambition

SKY’S POV Reyes’s IT contact found something else two days later, buried deeper in the same file structure that had already revealed Marcus’s private holding entity — a folder of message exchanges, apparently synced automatically from a work account someone had forgotten to fully secure. “I want to be careful with this,” Reyes said, when he called me over to look at what had been recovered. “This is a genuine invasion of someone’s private communication. I need you to understand that before we go any further.” “After everything they’ve done to Amira and me, I’m not losing much sleep over that concern.” “I understand. I just needed to say it out loud before we opened this.” • The messages were between Marcus and Damian, spanning months, the exchanges growing more explicit over time as whatever trust existed between them apparently deepened. Marcus: The restructuring conversation needs to happen carefully. I don’t want ownership’s fingerprints visible on this. Damian: Understood

Last Updated : 2026-09-17

Chapter 97 — Calvin’s Opportunity

SKY’S POV I noticed it first in the locker room, nothing dramatic, just a shift in how Calvin talked when he thought I wasn’t close enough to hear. “Two more starts,” he was telling one of the rookies, “and I think Coach finally sees what I can do.” • I didn’t say anything. It wasn’t wrong, exactly. Backups wanted starts. That was normal. But his tone felt different lately, sharper, like he was measuring himself against a version of the team that didn’t include me anymore. • Reyes caught me watching and gave a small shake of his head, a silent signal to let it go for now. I let it go. • Marcus found Calvin after practice that same week, the two of them talking near the equipment room in a conversation that ended the moment I walked past. “Everything okay?” I asked, mostly out of habit. “Fine,” Calvin said, a beat too quickly. “Marcus just wanted to talk about my development.” • “Development,” I repeated. “Yeah. He thinks I’m ready for more responsibility.” Calvin’s expre

Last Updated : 2026-09-17

Chapter 98 — The Money Trail

SKY’S POV Marchetti met me at a coffee shop two blocks from the arena, laptop already open before I’d even sat down across from him. “I’ve been digging into our informant,” he said. “The guy who’s been feeding information to whoever’s building this case against you.” “And?” “And it’s not cheap to hire someone reliable enough to track a professional athlete’s movements for weeks without getting caught. Money like that leaves a trail, even when people try to hide it.” • I leaned in, studying the screen he turned toward me, rows of transaction records I only partially understood. “What am I looking at?” “Public records first. Property, business filings, anything connected to people we already suspect might be involved. Then I cross-referenced payment patterns against known private investigation firms in the city.” • “You can actually find that kind of thing?” “Most of it’s technically public,” Marchetti said. “People just don’t usually bother looking. I bothered.” • He pull

Last Updated : 2026-09-18

Chapter 99 — Marcus’s Plan

SKY’S POV Marchetti called the next morning before I’d even finished my coffee, his voice carrying the particular steadiness of someone who’d spent the whole night working instead of sleeping. “I traced Blackwood as far as I could without official records,” he said. “I want to walk you through everything I’ve found. All of it, together, so you can see the whole picture instead of pieces.” • We met at Amira’s apartment an hour later, Reyes joining us, all of us gathered around her kitchen table with Marchetti’s laptop open in the center like something we were all afraid to look at directly. • “Start from the beginning,” Amira said. “Everything, in order.” • Marchetti nodded, pulling up a folder of documents he’d organized with visible precision. “The shell company funding our informant traces back to a holding group with ties to Blackwood Holdings, a private investment entity registered to Marcus’s family years before he took over the franchise. It’s not the team’s money. It’

Last Updated : 2026-09-18

Chapter 100 — The Counterattack

SKY’S POV We started meeting every other day after that, though never at the same place twice, Amira’s insistence that patterns were exactly what someone like Marcus would notice and use. “Documentation first,” she said, spreading a folder across Reyes’s kitchen table one evening. “Everything, dated, sourced. If this ever needs to hold up to scrutiny, it can’t just be our word against his.” • I watched her build a timeline with the same clinical precision she probably once used for patient files, every entry labeled, every source noted, nothing left to memory or assumption. • “You’re good at this,” I said. “I’ve had practice,” she said, not looking up. “Documentation is the only thing that protected me last time. I don’t intend to make the same mistake of trusting people to believe me without it.” • Reyes handled a different piece, quietly asking around about management decisions that had seemed ordinary at the time but read differently now. Which executives had been present

Last Updated : 2026-09-19

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