Page 136 of Faking the Shot

“Know what?”

“About your girlfriend.”

Ex, but whatever. “What about her?”

“She’s just been fired fromAs The Heart Draws.”

He blinked. “What?”

“You didn’t know?”

“How doyouknow?”

Logan shrugged. “Because I keep up with the industry news. And someone just posted about it on theAs the Heart DrawsInsta account.”

Drew chuckled. Logan tossed him a dirty look.

“It’s kind of creepy that you know about Zac’s girlfriend before he does,” Nik said.

Truth time. Especially with Drew looking at him like that. “Actually, we’re not together anymore.” If they were, he’d know this for sure. Fake or real. She would’ve told him something this huge. Wouldn’t she?

“I didn’t think they could fire her like that,” Chris said. “Didn’t she have a contract?”

“Do you think it was because she got her hair cut?” Logan asked.

“You can’t fire someone because of a haircut,” Nik scoffed.

“If you could, team management should fire you. That style went out in the eighties, dude.”

Nik stroked his mustache. “I like to think I look like Tom Selleck.”

“The only person who should look like Tom Selleck is Tom Selleck,” Logan said. “You just look like a creepy dude who goes to a strip joint.”

The room fell silent, as Zac grew aware of furtive glances being cast his way. But he wasn’t going to bite.

“Do you know something about the person who’s been pasting Ainsley’s head on stripper bodies?” Drew asked.

Thanks, Drew.

“No.” Logan swore. “If I found out who did that, I’d—” He went on to describe an action that certainly wasn’t in the Bible about what Jesus would do. But it did seem to suggest he was angry that Ainsley had been victimized in this way.

Logan glanced at Zac. “I know she is your girl—wasyour girl, whatever, but she’s gold, man. And I don’t care what any of you say. Nobody should do that kind of thing to any woman.”

“Preach it,” Chris said.

“Amen,” Zac said. Wow. Logan seemed quite enlightened from the man who had expressed quite different ideas a few months ago.

Drew glanced at Zac, and he shrugged. He mightn’t have made a public announcement in the locker room about his faith, but he hoped dropping little words and phrases would help others see he’d changed. A man didn’t need to use a battering ram to get his point across.

“Ainsley sure has had a rough time of things,” Drew said, as they exited.

“You don’t know the half of it.”

“And I don’t just mean about the fact she split up with you.”

Zac cut him a look. “I figured that.”

Drew laughed. Then sobered. Grew thoughtful.

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