The Blame Game

~HADLEY~

I only wanted to use the bathroom.

The post-game crowd in the corridor was filled with staff, media, and lingering fans, and I had slipped away from Cassidy with a quick excuse, needing two minutes of quiet and cold water on my wrists.

I didn't expect the hand that closed around my arm and pulled me into a narrower side hallway away from the main flow of people.

I turned, already tense, a