Chapter 13
Nate saw Vanessa before Emilia did.
That was the only reason Emilia didn’t walk straight into whatever look was on that woman’s face. Nate shifted half a step, putting himself between Emilia and the tunnel without making a thing of it, and by the time Emilia followed his eyes, Vanessa was already turning away like she’d just been passing through.
Phone still in her hand.
Smile still wrong.
“Don’t,” Emilia said under her breath.
“I didn’t say anything.”
“You were about to.”
Nate glanced at her. “She always show up at practice now?”
“I don’t know what she does.”
That was a lie. Emilia had a pretty good idea. The photo under her door that morning hadn’t slid there by accident.
Andrew came off the ice still talking, because silence was not a skill he had. “I’m just saying
