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Chapter 102 — The Question
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2026-10-01 07:12:53
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Behind the Ice Wall Chapter 105 — Everyone Knows
SKY’S POV By the time I got to the arena that morning, there was no version of the story left that didn’t include us. The second photo had done what the first one couldn’t. Nobody was asking questions anymore. They were just reacting. Fans split down the middle almost overnight. Half of social media seemed to think it was sweet, two people finding each other after everything I’d been through. The other half acted like Amira had committed a crime just by existing near me during recovery. I made the mistake of reading a few comment threads before practice and regretted it before I finished my coffee. Reyes caught me in the hallway before I reached the locker room. “Don’t look at your phone again today,” he said. “I mean it.” “Too late for that.” “Then stop making it worse.” He wasn’t wrong, but I couldn’t quite put it down. Sponsors weighed in by mid-morning, careful corporate language about monitoring the situation and trusting the organization to handle internal matters approp
Behind the Ice Wall Chapter 104 — The Story They Want
SKY’S POV By Thursday, the coverage had stopped being about a rumor and started being about a narrative. A rumor fades if nobody feeds it. A narrative gets built, piece by piece, until it stands on its own even after somebody pulls the pieces out from under it. I watched the shift happen online, one headline at a time. A morning show asked whether Amira had used her position to get close to me during recovery. A sports blog ran a longer piece questioning whether someone with her history should be allowed that kind of access to a player at all. Nobody used the word manipulation outright. They didn’t need to. They just kept circling it, close enough that readers filled in the rest themselves. I read three articles before I made myself put the phone down. Reyes found me in the locker room after, still lacing my skates slower than usual. “You look like you didn’t sleep,” he said. “Didn’t much.” “You saw the pieces this morning.” “I saw all of them.” He sat down across from me. “
Behind the Ice Wall Chapter 103 — No Comment
SKY’S POV Marcus’s office looked the same as always. Leather chairs, framed jerseys, the wide window overlooking the practice rink. I’d sat across from that desk a dozen times, mostly for contract talk, scheduling, nothing that ever made my stomach turn before I walked in. This time it did. He didn’t stand when I came in. Just gestured at the chair, calm, like this was any other Tuesday. “Sky. Thanks for coming in.” “Didn’t feel like I had a choice.” “You always have a choice.” He said it easily, correcting me the way you’d correct someone’s grammar. “I just requested a meeting.” I sat anyway. Standing there making a point out of it wouldn’t have changed anything. “This is about the interview,” I said. “Among other things.” He folded his hands on the desk. “The board’s been fielding calls all morning. Sponsors mostly. A couple of investors. Everyone wants to know the same thing you didn’t quite answer at that podium.” “I’m not discussing my personal life in a press conferen
Behind the Ice Wall Chapter 102 — The Question
SKY’S POV By morning the story had a name. Sports networks were calling it “The Wilson Situation,” which sounded like a diagnosis instead of two people who’d fallen in love at the wrong time. I showed up to practice anyway. Staying home would have looked worse, and Petrov had drilled that into every rookie who ever tried to hide from a bad week: you skate through it or it skates over you. Coach pulled me aside before we hit the ice. “How are you doing with all this?” “I’m fine to play.” “That’s not what I asked.” “It’s the answer I’ve got.” He waited a beat, like he’d expected exactly that answer, then nodded and let me go. ⸻ Practice went fine. Better than fine, actually. Gloves and a stick and a puck coming at me too fast to think about anything else made the last twelve hours quiet down. For an hour and a half, I wasn’t the guy in the headlines. I was just a goalie doing his job. Then it ended, and the noise came back. Marcus’s statement had gone out overnight. Reyes f
Behind the Ice Wall Chapter 101 — The Story Begins
SKY’S POV The reporter caught me outside the practice facility, microphone already up before I’d finished pulling my bag over my shoulder. “Sky, can we get a quick word?” I should have kept walking. Reyes always said the second you stop for one, three more show up behind her like she rang a dinner bell. But my car was still fifty feet away and she was already matching my pace, so I stopped. “Two minutes,” I said. “Appreciate it.” She lowered the mic slightly, like that made the next question softer. “There’s a photo circulating online of you and a woman identified as Dr. Amira Frank. Can you confirm you’re in a relationship with her?” I felt my jaw work before I caught it and stopped. Amira and I had talked about this exact moment. We’d walked through what to say if someone asked outright, rehearsed it enough times that the words should have come easily. Acknowledge nothing. Deflect without lying. Buy time until we controlled the timing ourselves. None of that came out. What
Behind the Ice Wall Chapter 100 — The Counterattack
SKY’S POV We started meeting every other day after that, though never at the same place twice, Amira’s insistence that patterns were exactly what someone like Marcus would notice and use. “Documentation first,” she said, spreading a folder across Reyes’s kitchen table one evening. “Everything, dated, sourced. If this ever needs to hold up to scrutiny, it can’t just be our word against his.” • I watched her build a timeline with the same clinical precision she probably once used for patient files, every entry labeled, every source noted, nothing left to memory or assumption. • “You’re good at this,” I said. “I’ve had practice,” she said, not looking up. “Documentation is the only thing that protected me last time. I don’t intend to make the same mistake of trusting people to believe me without it.” • Reyes handled a different piece, quietly asking around about management decisions that had seemed ordinary at the time but read differently now. Which executives had been present
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