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“Why you’re riding the goalie’s big stick so much,” she said.

“That’s not happening anymore,” I said.

“What are you talking about?” Eva asked.

“It’s done,” I said.

“You broke up with Maverick?” Zoe asked.

“Don’t say that out loud!” I yelled.

I groaned and grabbed both Zoe and Eva and hurried to thesecret hallwaywhere Maverick and I had met more than once.

“What happened?” Eva asked.

“It was too risky,” I said. “Way too risky. We both knew it.”

“You both agreed to this?” Zoe asked.

I shrugged my shoulders. “I said what I said to him.”

“What does that mean?” Eva asked.

“Look, more than one player knows about us now. I can’t have that. It’s too much. You know what happened before, right?”

“Madison,” Zoe said.

“No, it’s fine,” I said. “I should talk about it. You two have brought it up how many times and I shut you both down.”

“Don’t do it here,” Eva said.

“I have to do it,” I said. “I have to say it and talk about it. Or else it’ll be on my mind and keep happening.”

They both opened their mouths and I stopped them.

“Look, the last time really sucked, right? What did I do? I slept with the goalie of a hockey team and everything got messed up. Right?”

Zoe and Eva both frowned.

“What?” I asked.

They both looked down.

That’s when I…

I quickly spun around.

I covered my mouth.

Maverick was standing there.

And he heard everything I had said.