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Chapter 180: The Beginning
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2026-09-16 20:55:11
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Accidentally Yours, Hockey Captain Chapter 181: Soft Days
Alex’s POVThe first thing I noticed was the silence. Not the heavy, empty kind that used to fill the locker room at 2 AM — the kind that felt like waiting for something to break. This silence was soft. Warm. It wrapped around the cottage like sunlight through curtains, and for the first time in as long as I could remember, I didn’t feel the need to fill it.I woke up slowly, no alarm, no sharp knock at the door, no voice telling me where to be and when. Just the morning light filtering through the window, and Emily curled against my side, her head resting on my chest, her hand splayed gently over her bump. Her breathing was steady and soft, and I lay there for a long time, just watching her, memorizing the way the light touched her face, the way her eyelashes brushed her cheek when she shifted in her sleep.It was strange — this quiet. For years, every day had been scheduled, measured, owned. Every minute accounted for, every choice made for me. Now? Now we had nothing but minutes. H
Accidentally Yours, Hockey Captain Chapter 180: The Beginning
Alex’s POVThe official notice arrived on a Tuesday morning, plain white paper, league letterhead at the top, and I read it three times before the words actually settled in my chest. It wasn’t stamped in red ink. There were no sirens, no breaking news alerts blaring from every device in the room. It just sat there on the kitchen table, quiet and final, spelling out the end of everything Will had built — and the beginning of whatever came next.Effective immediately, William Sterling is suspended from all league activities pending full independent investigation. All personal and business assets tied to the league and the gallery are frozen. The City Hockey Club has been placed into independent trusteeship. No player contracts, sponsorship agreements, or financial transfers may be executed or altered without unanimous board approval.I set it down slowly. My hand didn’t shake. It just felt… heavy. Like holding something I’d spent months reaching for, only to realize once I had it, it wa
Accidentally Yours, Hockey Captain Chapter 179: What Julian Left
Alex’s POVThe knock came just after dawn — soft, deliberate, three quick raps against the door. Not urgent, not demanding. Just there.I was on my feet before anyone else had fully woken up, crossing the quiet living room in three long strides. Kara looked up from where she’d been sorting through printed statements, eyebrows raised. “Expecting someone?”“No.” I reached the door, but didn’t unlock it right away. “Stay back. All of you.”I peered through the small window beside the door — the porch was empty. No car, no figure waiting, nothing but the damp morning grass and the mist still clinging to the trees. On the step, sitting exactly in the center, wrapped in plain brown parcel paper and tied with thin twine, was a box. No label. No name. No return address. Just sitting there, like it had appeared out of the quiet itself.I unlocked the door and stepped outside, scanning the street, the tree line, the road leading up to the cottage. Nothing. Silence. Stillness. Whoever had left i
Accidentally Yours, Hockey Captain Chapter 178: Public Light
Emily’s POV The morning the story went live, the air in the safe house felt different. Lighter, somehow, even though none of us had slept much. Pierre’s laptop sat open on the kitchen table, the screen dim but glowing, waiting. Kara paced by the window, checking her phone every few minutes. Alex sat beside me, his hand resting over mine, quiet and steady. We’d spent days building this — piece by piece, voice by voice, truth by truth — and now it was finally time to let the world see it. At exactly 9:00 AM, Pierre refreshed the page. “It’s up.” We all leaned in at once. The headline was clean, professional — no sensationalism, no clickbait, just exactly what we’d asked for: “Patterns of Influence: Financial Irregularities and Conflicts of Interest Within the City Hockey League.” Beneath it, the journalist’s byline, and then — the story. It wasn’t an explosion. It was careful. Thorough. Every claim had a date, a name, a document attached. The game logs. The offshore transfers. The
Accidentally Yours, Hockey Captain Chapter 177: The Stepfather’s Truth
Alex’s POVThe house looked smaller than I remembered.I stood across the street, in the shadow of the oak tree I’d climbed as a kid, and stared at it. The same faded brick, the same chipped white porch step, the same mailbox leaning slightly to the left. It hadn’t changed. But everything inside it had. Everything about it had. And for the first time in my life, I wasn’t coming home. I was coming to get the truth.It was late afternoon. The sky was that soft, bruised orange that settles over the suburbs right before dark. No one was outside. No cars passed. Just me, standing there, my hands clenched at my sides, my heart beating so hard it felt like it was pounding against my throat. I’d told Emily I needed to do this alone. She’d tried to argue — I saw it in her eyes, the fear, the worry — but she’d nodded and squeezed my hand. Be careful. Whatever he says… it doesn’t make it okay. But listen.I crossed the street. Walked up the cracked concrete path. Stood on the step where I’d wait
Accidentally Yours, Hockey Captain Chapter 176: Voices in the Shadows
Emily’s POVThe first call came two days later.We were sitting at the kitchen table, going over the files again — looking for patterns we’d missed, dates we could cross-reference — when Kara’s phone buzzed once, quiet and sharp, against the wood. She picked it up, glanced at the screen, and stood up fast, walking to the window before answering.I watched her — the way her posture shifted, the way she kept her voice low, the way she looked back at us and nodded once before ending the call. When she turned around, her face was different. Lighter, somehow. Like a weight had shifted just enough to let her breathe.“That was him,” she said, sitting back down. “The player. The one who left the team mid-season after that game against Westside. He’s ready to talk.”My heart gave a small, hopeful thud. “Really?”“He’s scared,” Kara said. “Said Will called him into the office the night before the game. Told him to ‘take it easy’ on defense. Said it would be ‘better for everyone’ if they lost b
Accidentally Yours, Hockey Captain Chapter 1: The Kiss That Broke Everything
Emily’s POVMy laughter died the second I pushed open the café door.There he was, Lucas, my boyfriend of thirteen months with another girl on his lap, kissing her like he was starving.His hands gripped her waist exactly the way they used to grip mine. Her long chestnut hair spilled over his shoul
Accidentally Yours, Hockey Captain Chapter 5: Falling Into Sin
Emily’s POV Alex was carrying me through the pulsing club lights like I weighed nothing.One strong arm wrapped under my knees, the other supporting my back. My cheek pressed against his bare chest, still warm from where I’d collapsed into him moments ago. The bass vibrated through his body into m
Accidentally Yours, Hockey Captain Chapter 4: Collision Course
Emily’s POVMy legs felt loose and heavy at the same time as I stumbled back toward the bar. The music pulsed louder in my ears, each beat slamming against my skull. Kara’s warning from moments ago still rang in my head, but I pushed it away. “Another one,” I told the bartender, slapping my hand
Accidentally Yours, Hockey Captain Chapter 2: Girls’ Night Gone Wrong
Emily’s POVI stared at myself in the mirror and barely recognized the girl looking back.The tight black dress Kara lent me hugged every curve, short enough to make me tug at the hem nervously. My eyes were still puffy from crying, but I’d managed to cover most of the redness with makeup. Lip glo
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