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Chapter 21: Behind The Jersey

Author: Tear stained lore
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I stopped just outside the conference room door, my fingers still hooked around my camera strap like I’d forgotten what I was doing there in the first place.

“You can’t keep avoiding me forever, Melissa.”

Lucas Mercer’s voice carried through the door, softer than I expected. Not sharp. Not heated and just worn down, just a way that made me shift my weight without meaning to.

I shouldn’t have been standing there. That part was obvious. This wasn’t my conversation, and I knew better than to
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