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Chapter 49 — Choose
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Behind the Ice Wall Chapter 50 — Goodbye
SKY’S POV I found out the details three days later, not from Amira, but from Reyes, who’d pieced together what he could from front office gossip and a sympathetic contact in HR who still believed the whole situation had been handled badly from the start. “She didn’t just resign,” he told me, sitting across from me in his office, door closed. “She released a statement. Short. Professional. Said she was stepping away to protect the integrity of the organization and the well-being of the players she’d worked with, and that she wouldn’t be commenting further.” “That’s it? No mention of Damian? No mention of any of it?” “Nothing about him. Nothing about you, either, by name. She kept it clean, Sky. Deliberately clean, so nobody could point to anything in it and claim it proved what they’d been trying to prove.” I sat with that a moment, understanding the shape of what she’d done even before I fully felt the weight of it. She hadn’t just resigned. She’d taken the fall in a way that pr
Behind the Ice Wall Chapter 49 — Choose
SKY’S POV Marcus called me back into his office two days later, and this time Reyes wasn’t invited to come with me. “I’ve made a decision,” he said, not bothering with any preamble this time. “Effective immediately, you’re to have no further contact with Dr. Frank until the investigation concludes. None. No calls, no texts, no meetings, nothing that could be photographed or subpoenaed or used against either of you in that hearing.” “You already asked me to do that. I already agreed.” “I’m asking you to actually mean it this time.” He leaned forward, hands flat on the desk. “I have a general manager breathing down my neck about ownership’s confidence in this organization’s judgment. I have sponsors asking pointed questions. I have a playoff run that this entire team has worked years for, potentially compromised because my starting goalie can’t stop seeing a woman he’s been explicitly told to stay away from.” “That’s not what happened.” “I don’t care what actually happened anymor
Behind the Ice Wall Chapter 48 — Caught
SKY’S POV The photo went up online sometime before six the next morning, and by the time I saw it my phone already had eleven missed calls and a string of texts I didn’t have the stomach to read in order. It wasn’t damning, exactly. Just the two of us in a parking lot, her hand on her car door, me a few feet away, nothing in the image itself that proved anything beyond two people talking somewhere they probably shouldn’t have been talking, days before a hearing that depended on both of us staying visibly apart. The headline didn’t need proof. It just needed a caption. Ice Wall’s Secret Meeting: Sky Wilson Spotted With Psychologist at Center of HR Investigation, Days Before Hearing. • Reyes called before I’d finished reading the first article. “You need to see me. Now. Before practice.” “I know what this looks like.” “I don’t care what it looks like right now. I care what Marcus is going to say once he sees it, and based on the three calls I’ve already gotten this morning, he
Behind the Ice Wall Chapter 47 — One Conversation
SKY’S POV Amira called instead of texting, which hadn’t happened in weeks, and something about hearing her actual voice again made the whole conversation feel different before she’d even finished her first sentence. “I need to see you,” she said. “Not over the phone. In person. There are things I don’t want to write down anywhere, not even in a message.” “When?” “Tonight, if you can. Somewhere neither of us usually goes. My lawyer suggested I stop all contact entirely until the hearing, and I’ve been following that advice for weeks. But this can’t wait, and I trust you more than I trust waiting.” I didn’t ask what “this” meant. I just told her where to meet me — a diner on the edge of town, the kind of place neither of us had any reason to be seen, plain enough that nobody would think twice about two people sharing a booth. • She was already there when I arrived, sitting in the back corner, a cup of coffee in front of her that looked untouched. She looked thinner than I rememb
Behind the Ice Wall Chapter 46 — Hidden Evidence
SKY’S POV Reyes shut the door behind us and set a single sheet of paper on his desk instead of just telling me the name outright, like he wanted me to see it in writing before either of us said it out loud. I looked down. Read it twice. Damian Baron. Records request submitted March 14th. Reason listed: “HR compliance review.” “He requested it himself,” I said. “Not through someone else. His own name, right there.” “His own name,” Reyes confirmed. “Which either means he didn’t think anyone would ever check, or he didn’t care if they did.” “Why wouldn’t he care?” “Because up until now, nobody has.” Reyes leaned back against his desk. “This is the kind of request that gets buried in a system nobody audits unless somebody specifically goes looking. I only found it because the IT staffer mentioned it in passing. If she hadn’t, this stays invisible.” • I stared at the sheet a long moment, feeling something settle into place that had been circling for weeks without ever quite landi
Behind the Ice Wall Chapter 45 — A Secret Investigation
SKY’S POV Reyes found me before practice the next morning, coffee in hand, glancing down the hallway before he spoke as he’d already decided this conversation shouldn’t happen anywhere with cameras. “I thought about what you said,” he told me. “About finding proof instead of just suspecting.” “And?” “And I think you’re right that we need to try. Quietly. If we go to Marcus with a theory and nothing behind it, Damian spins it as harassment before we’ve even started.” He kept his voice low. “So we do this carefully. No accusations out loud. Just information.” “What kind of information?” “Meeting schedules. Who had access to what, and when. If the leaks are timed to internal meetings the way I think they are, there should be a pattern showing exactly who was in the room each time.” • We started small, which felt strange given how large the problem had become. Reyes pulled meeting logs he had legitimate access to as coaching staff — nothing confidential, nothing that would raise
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