Knox looked over at the rest of the guys and then whipped his head around at the sound of the locker room door opening.I looked over to see Pamela come in.
“Sorry I’m late, gentlemen,” she said immediately, looking my way.
This would explain why none of them had changed, and they all sat around dressed in whatever way they’d arrived in.
“Show me what it is you’ve found.”
“What did you guys find?”I questioned.
“Come on, big guy, let’s go get some food,” Lucas and Levi both said, getting up from where they were sitting.
Now I was suspicious.Whatever they’d found had to do with me, and I wanted to know exactly what it was.
“Not a chance,” I barked.
Pamela turned and looked at me, then put her attention back to the others.
“Go ahead, Dylan, what did you find?”
Dylan looked at me and crossed his arms in front of his chest, then looked at Pamela.
“Well, it’s surrounding the big guy here, and…” He paused, looking at me again.“Looks likeOff the Ice Insidershas found out about Miranda’s Miracle Foundation and Colton.”
The room spun out of control as Dylan mentioned the foundation I’d created in the name of my mother.How the hell had they learned about that?I’d done everything in my power to keep my name off that foundation, right down to making all these fuckers and the ones in charge here sign an NDA, and then I realized the only other person who knew.
“Don’t panic, please.We will get this taken care of,” Pamela said, immediately taking screenshots of the article.
My phone vibrated in my pocket, and when I looked down at the screen, I saw the only person in the world I never wanted to speak to again.How things change, because five minutes ago I’d have begged for a message from her.Now all I could wonder was how she could stoop so low to betray my trust?
In a rage, I whipped my phone across the locker room, smashing it into pieces.
Chapter Eighteen
Emma - Three Weeks Later
I sat in my office,looking out over the city.It had been a hellish three weeks.After the publication had gone out regarding Miranda’s Miracle Foundation, I’d tried to get in touch with Colton, only he wouldn’t speak to me.He wouldn’t text me back and he wouldn’t return my calls.Soon after, Pamela reached out to me, and I’d come clean with my mistake.
In a rush after the in-home interview, I’d compiled some articles to be printed after their publication.Somehow, I’d accidentally attached the article I’d written about the foundation.The one that Colton had told me I couldn’t publish.When I’d seen the article, I felt like I was going to be sick and then Pamela confronted me, I’d explained to her what had happened.I’d expected to hear she was going to call Kerry but instead she surprised me by saying that it was an honest mistake and not to worry.
That was the last I’d heard from any of them.In the weeks that followed I hadn’t paid any more attention to anything related to Colton Fox.My heart still ached after what had happened that night at dinner.My heart had wanted to stay and work things out with him, but my mind told me it was going to be impossible for us to ever have a relationship.So, I’d packed up and left.
“Hey, Emma,” I heard Kerry say.
I turned around and looked at the doorway.
“Hey, Kerry, you just about done for the holidays?”I questioned.
“Just about.I just wanted to pop in and saw I got a letter today from Kent Cole and from Guy Larson.”
“Oh, that is nice.”
“Sure is!Don’t you want to know what it said?”
I shook my head, afraid that I’d let Kerry down.“No, I don’t think so.”I sighed, turning back to my laptop, writing my out-of-off email for the holidays.
“Emma?What’s wrong?”
That was when I turned around and burst into tears.“I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to let you down.”I sniffled.
