Page 269 of Wrong Pucking Player

“Is Katherine really sick?” I ask and look back to Leo, who’s pulling out a gun and loading it.

“Kathy almost got fucking poisoned during dinner tonight,” Leo reveals as he fights for breath. “She hasn’t told you guys, but she’s been getting threatening letters since the beginning of the semester to stop getting close to you.”

“To me?” I gasped in surprise. “Why would someone be threatening her for getting close to me?”

“Fernandez,” Wyatt immediately declares. “It has to be him. No one else would be threatening Katherine to stay away from Xandra.”

“I’ve alerted Mr. Champion and tried to hack into the security cameras, but everything is blocked,” Leo emphasizes.

“Go figure,” Wyatt grunts.

“What’s fishy about this?” I ask Leo. “You told the rest of the team to meet us. Why? Wouldn’t that put them more at risk?”

“We’re going to need it,” Leo emphasizes and looks so angry, the veins in his neck are practically popping. “Someone set Oscar up.”

“Oscar?” I don’t understand. “He’s been with us the entire time. Heck, we just finished taking group pictures.”

“Someone’s spreading on socials that Oscar’s been blackmailing people via text using a phone that belongs to Winchester.”

“How the fuck would that become public knowledge NOW when there’s a fire breakout?” I emphasize. “And that’s impossible. Oscar got us new phones. Winchester literally broke my phone, thinking it was Oscar’s, and Muffin pushed Oscar’s phone multiple times off the nightstand until it was barely functioning. We have proof for everything.”

“You have both phones now?”

“Yes,” I emphasize and immediately reach into my purse bag to show them to me.

“I don’t like the idea of you not having a phone right now, but I want to retrieve the first messages when you guys got a new phone and texted your friend and family about the change. This may be the only way to prove to the police that Oscar is innocent if they use it against him.”

“How does this connect to the fire?” Wyatt questions. “It has no correlation whatsoever.”

“They’re saying Oscar has been using Winchester’s phone to bully the gay players in the building and writing the threatening notes,” Leo reveals and even shows me his phone that displays what’s currently trending on TikTok.

The subject line: “GOALIE ARMANI BLACKMAILING GAYS.”

“That’s bullshit!” I hiss, and my eyes widen. “Oh, no. We have to stop Oscar from going, then. What if they think he set the fire?”

“How would he set the fire when he’s entering the premises now?” Leo hisses.

“If the police are involved in saving Winchester’s name like they did for that Tesla accident involving that mom and child, anything could be possible,” Wyatt stresses as he speeds even further.

We’re only a minute away.

“I don’t think the police would do that,” Leo admits.

“Why not?”

“Oscar and the police… well…” Leo begins before his own phone begins to ring. He picks it up on the first ring. “Katherine? Kathy, you alright?”

He quickly puts it on speaker so we can hear her as she coughs a few times.

“Fuck. I can’t see!” she hisses.

“Meow.”

“Holy fucking shit, Muffin?!” I screech.

“Meow Meow!” Her little response is everything, which means one thing.

Katherine saved Muffin.

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