The Soccer Star's Forgotten Wife novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: Say It to My Face
"He said I sent it," I said.
"He swore to it," the integrity man said. "Under penalty of perjury. He says you chose the matches from your referee notes and told him which minute. He says the gentleman at the rail was simply watching his client."
"The gentleman at the rail is the man who paid him four hundred thousand dollars."
"Mr. Lovell says that was a loan, and that it's been repaid."
I laughed.
It wasn't a good sound.
"So it's my word against his," I said.
"It's your notes against his statement," he said. "And right now, his statement explains your notes."
He hung up politely.
I sat on the edge of Cody's bathtub for a long time.
Dex had stood on my dad's step and cried.
He'd said I was going to get hurt.
He hadn't said he'd be the one doing it.
Front Range held an open training session on the second Saturday in September.
It was on the club's website.
Season ticket holders only, nine a.m., bring the kids.
"No," Cody said, when I showed him.
"I'm not asking."
"I know you're not asking. I'm saying no anyway, for the record."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of The Soccer Star's Forgotten Wife are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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