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Chapter 27
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Captain's Ice Slave Chapter 46
The bus ride to the outdoor rink was louder than Ethan felt.Players talked through matchups and the colder surface conditions. Ethan sat near the window with his gloves in his lap and barely joined any of it. The computer guy’s summary was still sitting in his head in hard lines: the second player had been rostered that junior year, then gone after the scandal window.Tyler dropped into the seat beside him once the bus started moving. “You’re quieter than usual.”“Didn’t sleep much.”“Is this about what we found?”Ethan glanced down the aisle, then back. “Yes. But not here.”Tyler kept his voice low. “I’m not asking for a speech. I just need to know if your head is in this game or still on that photo.”“I’ll play,” Ethan said. “I’m not bringing the rest onto the bench. Not until we know more.”“That wasn’t a no.”“It’s the only answer you’re getting on this bus.”Tyler studied him for a second, then nodded once. “Fine. If it starts showing on the ice, I’m saying something.”“I know.”
Captain's Ice Slave Chapter 45
Ethan found Tyler near the side exit after the late session and pulled him away from the remaining voices in the corridor.“I need you to look at something,” he said.Tyler followed him to the quieter stretch by the equipment doors. “If this is about Marcus again…”“It is.” Ethan unlocked his phone and held up the photo. “He showed me this yesterday. This was taken at Junior-year camp. That’s Jax there but I don’t know the other one.”Tyler leaned in. “Okay. And?”“Marcus says this is the player who got hurt in the fallout that never made the official record. Claims the scholarship story was only the surface version. Says this guy was close enough to share a frame with Jax and then disappeared from the program story completely.”Tyler studied the image longer. “He’s feeding you another angle.”“I know.” Ethan lowered the phone. “I also know the file I found undercuts the scholarship claim. That part is real and this photo is real too. What I don’t have is the name, or any proof that M
Captain's Ice Slave Chapter 44
Ethan barely slept.By morning the folder was open again on his desk, pages spread under the lamp like they might change if he stared long enough. He paced the short length of the room, came back, and read the committee log for the third time. It was still an incomplete paperwork with withdrawn materials and no granted offer or sabotage entry under Jax’s name.Marcus’s voice sat against every line. ‘You really think Jax is innocent?’Ethan stopped at the window, then turned back to the desk. “The file says you collapsed your own application,” he muttered. “That’s what it says.”The empty room offered nothing back.He picked up the summary sheet again. Jax’s words from the before replayed without permission: I’m not hiding anything. I didn’t sabotage him. The same tone he had used when Ethan asked if the new rumors worried him.“And if you’re lying too?” Ethan said under his breath.The question landed harder than he wanted. He sat, then stood again, unable to stay still. Every p
Captain's Ice Slave Chapter 43
The rink emptied slower than usual. Ethan stayed in the records room until the last voices faded down the corridor, then gathered the pages that mattered and went looking. He found Marcus in the far locker bay, alone, tying his street shoes like the building already belonged to him.“I need a minute,” Ethan said.Marcus didn’t look up right away. “Practice is over.”“This isn’t about practice.”Marcus finished the knot, sat back, and finally met his eyes. “Then say it.”Ethan kept the folder closed against his side. “You told me Jax sabotaged your scholarship and that is was a quiet conversations. Timing that made you look unreliable. That he kept his path open and cost you yours.”Marcus’s mouth curved, small and unimpressed. “And now you’ve been in the files.”“I was putting notes into player folders. Yours was already sitting there.” Ethan’s voice stayed even. “The junior-year log doesn’t show an offer that got taken from you. It shows missing materials. A packet that never cleared
Captain's Ice Slave Chapter 42
Practice was already in full motion when Coach walked back onto the ice deck.Jax sat in his usual place along the boards with the tablet, marking notes between drills. The rest of the team moved through a cycle of rush sequences under one of the assistants. Nothing about the morning had felt unusual until Coach’s voice cut across the rink.“Rivera. My office, now.”The whistle from the assistant died mid-call. Several players slowed. A few stopped completely. Jax looked up. Coach’s expression was closed, the same hard focus he had carried out of the archive room earlier. There was no private gesture, no quiet signal to wait until after practice. The summons was public.Ethan, standing near the far circle, exchanged a quick glance with Tyler. Eli eased to a stop near the boards. Even Marcus, usually careful about where he placed his attention, turned his head.Jax set the tablet down on the bench. “Coach?”“You heard me. Office.”The assistant coach recovered first. “Keep moving. Same
Captain's Ice Slave Chapter 41
Ethan waited until he was alone in his room before he called.Jax picked up on the second ring. “Yeah?”“It’s me,” Ethan said. “I need a straight answer about juniors.”“Okay.”“Is there anything from that year beyond what I already know that could still implicate you? Something that hasn’t come out?”Jax’s reply was steady. “No. I’m not hiding anything.”Ethan sat with the answer for a second. “Marcus has started circulating talk again. Selective messages about your past, the scholarship year, things that ‘never got cleared.’ Have you heard it?”“I’ve heard.”“And?”“And I don’t care,” Jax said. “There’s nothing for me to be afraid of. Let him send what he wants.”The lack of tension in Jax’s voice was almost harder to read than anger would have been.Ethan exhaled. “All right.”“That it?”“For now. Goodnight.”“Goodnight.”The call ended, Ethan set the phone down and stayed on the edge of the bed.Marcus was still feeding selected teammates private lines about the junior year and th
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