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THE GIRL HE REPLACED

(Ivy)I came home early with a cake.A whole chocolate cake, with GOOD GAME, BABY piped across the top in blue icing. It cost me twenty dollars and a little of my pride, because the baker asked if it was for my boyfriend and I said yes like an idiot in love.Dominic Prescott had scored twice that night. The Hawks won four to two. Everyone was heading to the after party, and I told my friends I had a better plan.I was going to surprise him.I climbed the stairs to our apartment, balancing the cake box on one arm. I could already picture it. Dom would grin that stupid golden boy grin, pick me up, and spin me around.I heard laughing before I even got the key in the lock.A girl's laugh.I should have turned around right there. Any smart woman would have. But I was holding a cake, and apparently the cake made me brave.I opened the door.Dom was on the couch. Our couch. The one I paid half for. And my roommate Sloane was sitting in his lap, kissing him like she was trying to win a prize

Last Updated : 2026-10-30

EIGHT DATES

(East)Here is a fun fact about me. I never plan to say the dumbest thing in the room. It just happens."Eight dates," Dom repeated."Eight," I said. "Pay attention."His laugh came out a little thinner than before. Good. Three years I had waited to see that crack in his face."This is a joke," he said, glancing around the bar like someone might jump out with a camera. "Ivy, he's messing with you. He doesn't even like you."Ivy hadn't said a word. She just stared at me with those wide brown eyes, like she was trying to figure out which one of us had lost his mind.Honestly, same."Tell you what," I said to Dom. "Go home. Tell Sloane thanks for the hoodie. We'll handle the rest."His jaw tightened. "You'll regret this.""I regret a lot of things. Wearing my own skates to your birthday party, for one." I smiled. "This isn't one of them."Dom looked at Ivy one more time. She didn't flinch, and that made me happier than it should have.He stormed out.The bar slowly went back to normal. S

Last Updated : 2026-10-30

THE FIRST RULE

(Ivy)I made a list of rules at two in the morning, which is a terrible time to make decisions and the perfect time to make threats.By nine a.m. it was typed, printed, and folded in my bag. Rule one through rule nine. I even bolded the important ones.I met East at a corner table in the library cafe. He was already there, slouched in his chair with two coffees and a smug face. Grey hoodie, hair damp from a shower. It was unfair how good he looked this early."You're late," he said."I'm four minutes early.""I've been here ten.""That's a you problem."He grinned. I hated how my stomach did a small, stupid flip.I slapped the printed list on the table. "Read."East picked it up like it was a restaurant menu. His eyebrows climbed as he scanned."Rule one, no kissing unless we agree beforehand." He glanced up. "Agree how? Do we sign something? Do I raise my hand?""Keep reading.""Rule two, no controlling each other's friends. Rule three, no messing with classes or hockey. Rule four, d

Last Updated : 2026-10-30

DATE NUMBER ONE, THE PUBLIC HUMILIATION

(Ivy) Date One was supposed to be a performance. Instead it turned into the most confusing evening of my life. East picked me up at seven, outside my cousin Juno's apartment where I was currently sleeping on a lumpy air mattress because my old place had a cheater, a traitor, and a cake stain. I came down the stairs in a green dress I'd bought three weeks ago and never worn. It was fitted. It was dangerous. It was supposed to be armor. East was leaning against his truck with his hands in his pockets. He looked up. And stopped. I'm not exaggerating. The man literally forgot what he was going to say. His mouth opened a little, then closed again. "Hi," I said. "Hi." "Is something wrong?" "No." He cleared his throat. "No. You look. Fine." "Fine." "Good fine." "Wow. Poetry." He shook his head, laughing at himself. "Give me a second. I'm recovering." Okay. That was a point for me. He opened the passenger door and waited. I got in, trying very hard not to smile. The truck sme

Last Updated : 2026-10-30

THE FIRST KISS

(East)By Monday morning, the entire university knew my business."Campus Whispers" posted three photos at 6 a.m. Me opening Ivy's chair. Ivy laughing with her head thrown back. Me looking at her like an idiot.The caption said: Is Ivy Sinclair using Hockey Captain Easton Whitaker to make Dom Prescott jealous??? We have questions.Theo shoved his phone in my face at breakfast."Look at your own expression," he said. "You look like a puppy who found a sandwich.""That's just my face.""That's love.""That's indigestion.""Sure." He chewed his toast. "Keep telling yourself that."I took the phone and zoomed in on the third photo. It was the one where Ivy was laughing. Her eyes were closed, her hand was on my arm, and she was glowing. She looked so happy it hurt.I hated that I knew exactly why I'd been looking at it for five straight minutes.My phone buzzed. A message from Ivy.Ivy: Did you see it?East: Define "it."Ivy: THE PHOTOS.East: I look great.Ivy: You look like you're in lov

Last Updated : 2026-10-30

THE MORNING AFTER NOTHING HAPPENED

(Ivy)I woke up on Juno's air mattress at seven a.m. with one thought in my head.I kissed Easton Whitaker.Not a peck. Not a fake little kiss for the cameras. I grabbed his shirt like a woman drowning and kissed him until my knees forgot their job.I pulled the blanket over my face and screamed into it."Are you dying?" Juno called from the kitchen."Yes.""Is it man related?""No.""It's man related." She appeared in the doorway holding a spatula. My cousin is twenty four, wears a different silk scarf every day, and has zero respect for my privacy. "Did you do something with the hockey captain?""I did nothing.""Your lips are swollen.""I'm allergic to something.""Uh huh. Is the something six foot two with a crooked smile?"I threw a pillow at her. She dodged it like a professional."Ivy," she said, softer now. "You can like him. That's allowed.""I don't like him. He's a rival's weapon and I'm his revenge project.""He looked at you like you hung the moon.""He looks at everyone

Last Updated : 2026-10-30

THE GIRL WHO KNOWS TOO MUCH

(Ivy)I grabbed Sloane's arm before she could walk away."What did you just say?"She looked down at my hand like it was dirty. "Let go, Ivy.""Say it again.""I said ask him." She pulled free and smoothed her sleeve. "I'm not going to explain. It's not my story to tell.""You were literally in my apartment kissing my boyfriend.""And Easton was in the room next door, apparently, knowing about it."My lungs forgot how to work."What?"Sloane's face flickered. For half a second she looked like she'd said too much. Then her chin went up again."Ask him. He has his own reasons for staying quiet.""Sloane.""I'm done talking." She turned and walked out. Her heels clicked down the hallway like tiny gunshots.I stood there. My hands were cold. The whole lecture hall had emptied around me, and I could hear the clock over the door ticking like it was laughing.He knew.Maybe he didn't. Maybe she was lying. Sloane lied about everything, from her age on dating apps to the last time she did the

Last Updated : 2026-11-04

THE CAPTAIN'S MISTAKE

(East)I've been hit by a puck at ninety miles an hour. I've taken a stick to the ribs and a boot to the teeth.None of it hurt like reading Ivy's text.If this is how you play games, find someone else.I read it eleven times. I know because Theo counted."You're doing it again," he said, from the other bed."Doing what?""Staring at your phone like it owes you money."I put the phone face down on my chest. The hockey house ceiling had a water stain shaped like Florida, and I'd been studying it since midnight."She hates me," I said."She doesn't hate you.""She said find someone else.""She said it at ten p.m. after crying into a bowl of cereal.""How do you know about the cereal?""Juno posted a video." Theo held up his phone. "She wrote 'cousin in crisis.' It has forty thousand views."I groaned and pulled a pillow over my face.---Practice the next morning was a disaster.I missed two passes. I fell during a drill. In the third period of the scrimmage, I forgot which side I was o

Last Updated : 2026-11-04

DATE NUMBER TWO, THE RIVALRY GAME

(Ivy)I told myself I was going to the game for research.Dom said East was lying. East said he had reasons. And I had learned that the best way to understand a man is to watch him under pressure.Also, Juno bought the tickets and refused to let me waste them."You're coming," she said, fixing her lipstick in the car mirror. "Wear the black sweater.""Why the black sweater?""Because it makes you look like a woman who's thriving.""I'm not thriving.""Fake it."The arena was a roaring wall of noise. Blue and gold flags, drum lines, a mascot in a giant hawk costume doing questionable dance moves. We found our seats in the third row behind the glass, close enough to hear the pucks smack the boards.I hadn't been to a hockey game since the breakup. The last time, I'd been in Dom's jersey with his number on my back.Tonight I wore my own clothes."You okay?" Juno asked."I'm good.""You're gripping my arm.""Sorry.""It's fine. Just don't draw blood."This was the annual Blue and Gold gam

Last Updated : 2026-11-04

THE FIRST REAL DATE

(East)Ivy texted me at 6 a.m. on Sunday.Ivy: Where are you?East: Bed. Why?Ivy: Get up. We need to talk. Not at campus.East: Is this a breakup? Because I wasn't aware we had anything to break.Ivy: Diner. Maple Street. Thirty minutes.East: Is it a date?Ivy: It's an interrogation.East: So, yes.She didn't answer. But I was already pulling on jeans.---The diner on Maple Street was the kind of place that smelled like pancakes and burned coffee. Red vinyl booths, a jukebox from the nineties, a waitress named Dolores who called everyone "hon."Ivy sat in the back booth with her hands wrapped around a mug. Hair in a messy bun, oversized sweater, no makeup. She looked so beautiful I almost forgot how to walk."You're staring," she said, without looking up."I'm admiring the decor.""The wall is beige.""It's a nice beige."She finally looked up. Her eyes were serious. "Sit."I sat. Dolores slid a mug of coffee in front of me and winked. "Your girlfriend ordered you pancakes, hon.""

Last Updated : 2026-11-04

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