HENRY POV
I hated the plan. Every single part of it.
Fucking hell, we were so close. So close to everything I’d dreamed about. Just one more week, and we’d be in our own place. The coach was adamant Dax and I could get into the same team too. Our future was finally coming together, and now—now it could all fall apart because of this.
Why? Why the f**k did Val have to get involved with a mafia guy? Why couldn’t she have kept her life clean? And why, of all people, did Steve Caputo have to fixate on *Maria*? What the hell was so wrong with the universe that she had to be the center of his sick little mind?
I wanted to punch a hole in the wall, scream at the unfairness of it all, but I couldn’t. I just sat there, following the rest of the meeting like I was on autopilot.
But I co
