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21 - Stay Out

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last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-04-29 21:05:20
Eli's POV

Coach Williams' office was the last place on earth I wanted to be at that moment. He was already behind his desk when I walked in, and the look on his face told me he had been sitting there working himself up to this conversation.

Williams was a broad man who had played Division I hockey in the eighties, which he liked to remind us at every given opportunity. He kept a framed photo of himself from that era on his desk, right next to the college's athletic achievement plaques. He had p
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