Cross-Checked (Boston Rebels #3)

Cross-Checked (Boston Rebels #3)

Author: Julia Connors Listening Length: 11h 40m

Some people might call it a grudge, but in reality, hating Alessandra Jones is more like an obsession. AJ is the league’s first female general manager, and my boss. As the team captain, I have to play nice with her—in public, at least. But in private, the gloves come off. And then one time, our clothes do too. We vow...

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Chapter Forty-One

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T he crowd in the locker room before Game 7 is unlike any I’ve ever seen. Normally, Charlie likes to keep it just coaches, players, me, and occasionally Frank. But because the GM of the Year announcement will be made during tonight’s pre-game programming, the large TV on the wall of the visitors’ locker room is on, and every member of the Rebels organization who has traveled to St. Louis for the final game is standing here in this huge semicircle that extends around the perimeter of the room.

In the middle of the room are two cameramen on their knees, with their cameras pointing at me. Behind me is the same reporter from the press conference a month ago—the one who asked our then-surly captain about fighting in the stands. It makes me realize that I never gave him the opportunity to make that right.