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“Spend New Year’s with me,” Hugh said into the phone. “It’s been too long since I’ve seen you.”
“I would love that,” Bryna said in a slight panic.
The football team was leaving in two hours for Miami. There was absolutely no way she could stay in town to see Hugh. So far, their relationship had worked out with her schedule. He was always here during the week or when she didn’t have cheer. She had missed practice once to go to Lake Tahoe with him, but the play-offs were a different story. And it wasn’t as if she could say she had cheer. He didn’t know she was still in college.
“All right. Let me get my secretary on the phone.”
“Hugh,” she said before he could get off the phone, “I already have plans. I’m going to Miami with my girlfriends.”
That, at least, was partially true.
“Wel
