Hate the Game by Rose Callie

Author:Rose, Callie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-21T16:00:00+00:00

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Addison

Three hours later, I was beginning to give up hope of getting anything useful out of Damian. According to him, Sawyer was probably gay, Sawyer’s dad was probably a billionaire, and Sawyer had a secret wife—or three—back home.

He showed me his evidence for all of it. It was, in a word, lacking.

“You get it, I can tell,” Damian said smugly. “There’s no way a guy like Sawyer rises to the top like that without some help. He’s not even that good at the game. His parents pulled all the strings. He bought his way onto the team.”

“That’s the first thing you’ve said that’s made any sense at all,” I said irritably. “Tell me, what makes you think he bought his way onto the team?”

Damian blinked at me. “Because his dad is a billionaire.”

“And you’ve based this on the fact that one of the men on the Forbes list is named Dawson, and that his picture isn’t anywhere to be found online.”

“Exactly! If he wasn’t attached to a famous person, why would he hide his face?”

“I don’t know, to protect against assassination attempts?”

“Who would want to assassinate a billionaire?” Damian, to his credit, looked legitimately confused.

I sighed as I watched the last shred of hope I had to pin Sawyer with something disappear. I rubbed my face in exasperation.

“Tell me about Sawyer’s party days,” I said desperately. “Is he still doing any of that?”

“No. He never was. He staged all of those pictures. It was a publicity stunt.” Damian said it with such confidence that if he hadn’t just spewed all of those baseless conspiracy theories, I would have taken him seriously. As it was, I regarded him suspiciously.

“Okay, explain.”

Damian shrugged. “Look at how it turned out! He has one picture taken of him with his face in a puddle of puke, and next thing you know he’s all anyone is talking about. He gets himself all these women… he paid them, by the way… and his face is plastered all over magazines from here to Japan. Of course it was a publicity stunt. Nobody gets that sober that fast unless they were faking it in the first place.” He scoffed in disgust.

I shook my head. Nothing, he had nothing. He had clearly developed some sort of jealousy-based obsession with Sawyer, and had built the situation up so far in his head that he couldn’t even think clearly.

“Do you think Sawyer deserves his place on the team?” I asked, knowing what his answer would be.

“No. Absolutely not. He’s just in it for the fame. Some of us are married to the game. He’s not. Someone who is should be in his place.”

“He studies the opposition for hours on his own time. He trains constantly, in all kinds of innovative ways. Wouldn’t you call that being married to the game?”

Damian scowled. “Innovative ways? Like what, taking bubble baths? Dancing ballet? That’s not proof of anything except the fact that Sawyer wishes he was born a woman.”

My brows rose. “Now he’s transgender? I thought you said he was secretly gay?”

“Pick one,” Damian said bitterly.

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