Crossing the line
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The old injury I’d told her about — the one I’d sworn I was managing — was back, and I hated that she wasn’t here to tell me to slow down.
I hated that I missed her.
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The article hit two days later.
I was scrolling aimlessly on my phone when Marcus’s voice cut across the locker room. “Yo, Cole. You seen this?”
I glanced up. He was holding his phone out, screen glowing with a headline that made my stomach flip:
STAR PLAYER, SHAKY FUTURE? SOURCES SAY ETHAN COLE PLAYING THROUGH INJURY
The room tilted. My pulse hammered as I snatched the phone. The article was short, but it didn’t need to be long. It laid out just enough: whispers of an old knee injury, questions about whether I was hiding it