My Team Cut Me on Stage for a Younger Star, So I Took Last Place to the Final novel · Chapter 13 of 24

Chapter 13: Conflict

Mac held the phone up until she was sure I'd read the caption twice.

"Is it real?" she asked.

"It's real."

"Is she feeding you reads?"

"No."

She looked at me for a long second and put the phone in her back pocket.

"Then they'll hang her for it anyway," she said. "Get on the bus."

By the time we got back to Reseda, the photo had four million views.

Toni didn't answer my calls on Saturday night or on Sunday.

On Monday at nine the studio show came on, and the whole house was in front of it.

Toni was on the desk in a gray blazer, and her partner wasn't laughing at anything.

She didn't wait for the theme music to finish.

"Before we start, the photo," she said. "That's me against the car, and that's Joel Strickler."

"I went to the commissioner on Sunday morning, before anybody asked me to," she said.

"The league has a rule. A caster who's seeing a coach doesn't call that coach's team."

"So I won't call another Owls match this season. I'll still be on this desk, and I'll still host the pre-show."

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