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“Fuck you, Coach,” he grumbled. Anyone else on the team and I might have chastised them, but Kaiden was different. He’d been dealt a shitty hand and I’d taken a shine to him since taking the coaching position a few weeks ago.
“You kiss your mother with that mouth?” Laughter rumbled in my chest, as I changed the angle on the target.
“What about you anyway? Everyone’s calling you a hero.”
“Yeah, well, I wish they’d stop.” I swallowed over the giant fucking lump in my throat.
“Can I ask you something…?” Kaiden’s look was pensive.
“Sure, kid.”
“Do you think it was an accident?”
“Peyton says it was.” The hand rubbing my jaw masked my expression. Or at least, I hoped it did. I didn’t want to get into this with him, or anyone for that matter. Peyton was alive. She was going to be okay and get the help she needed. Accident or no accident, it was done.
But as I said the words, something deep inside me twisted. Because I wasn’t sure what I’d seen that night. All I knew was I’d dragged a barely conscious girl from the icy depths of the Susquehanna River and watched as the ambulance carted her off to Rixon General. A girl who, by all accounts, had always been so vibrant and full of life.
“Yeah, but what do you think?” Kaiden stared at me as if I had all the answers.
But even if I did, it wasn’t any of my business.
And I had no plans of getting involved.
