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“We have a new season to get geared up for,” I say with a nervous laugh “Plenty of tis—”

“And a ring,”to Bishop “It’s all well and good you’re talking aboutfor her, and that’s soh”

“Dad,” I gasp with outrage as I drop my fork “That’s none of your business”

“Bullshit,”his fork in the air first at me, then at Bishop “Both of you ot slapped in the face with it today But I’ you the benefit of the doubt Now that it’s in the open, I expect you do this the right way”

His gaze turns to Bishop and he stabs his fork in the air again, right at hihter”

“Understood,” Bishop replies in a clipped voice, and uilt over this whole fiasco intensifiesChapter 5BishopI hate holding her hand, and yet I feel I’d like it way too much under different circumstances

We walk out to her car with our fingers laced together and her father probably watching us out theI had prepared to go in there and lie through my teeth with made-up facts to dispel Coach Perron’s suspicions, but he turned the fucking tables on us and see

“I am so sorry,” Brooke murmurs as we reach her driver’s side door

“You’ve said that enough,” I tell her as I release her hand

“Not enough,” she mutters as her head drops and she stares at her shoes It causes a pang of syers up her neck, pushingher to look atand let’s just figure out where to go from here, okay?”

She nods, a tre on her face

“I ently I’d heard the tone in her dad’s voice when he was talking about his wife, and given everything that’s happened in that faot us into thisto protect me from her father, I decided to just accept what’s happened No sense in be it now that it’s done, and we just have to concentrate on finding a way out of this

And until we do, I’s

I lean into her,ering kiss Brooke gasps with surprise into my mouth