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The House That Remembered
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2026-08-08 21:06:27
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Contract Marriage with My Hockey Alpha The Secret She Kept
CHAPTER Eighty SevenThe Secret She KeptScarlett’s POVI barely spoke during the drive back to the mansion because my aunt’s words were still running through my mind, and although I finally understood why she had stayed away from me, I still could not completely accept that the people I had spent years blaming had been trying to protect me in their own way.Ryan sat beside me, watching me quietly.“You don’t have to think about everything tonight,” he said.I gave him a tired smile.“I know, but my mind doesn’t seem to understand that.”He laughed softly.“Then let it think for a while.”I turned toward him.“You really think my aunt was telling the truth?”“I think she believes what she told you.”“That’s not the same thing.”“No, it isn’t.”He took my hand.“That’s why we keep looking.”I nodded.When we arrived at the mansion, we walked inside together, but before we could reach the stairs, Eleanor was already waiting for us.She looked at the letter in my hand.“You spoke to her.
Contract Marriage with My Hockey Alpha You Are Looking In The Wrong Place
CHAPTER EIGHTY-EIGHTYou Are Looking in the Wrong PlaceScarlett’s POVThe journey back from Adeline’s house felt completely different from the journey there because when we had left the mansion earlier that evening, I had been carrying questions that had followed me for years, while now I was carrying something much heavier and much more precious, because for the first time since I was a child, I had heard my mother’s voice clearly enough to understand that she had never stopped loving me, even though knowing that she had wanted to come back only made the years without her feel more painful.I sat beside Ryan in the back seat while the lights from the road passed across his face, and neither of us spoke for several minutes because there were moments when words were simply not enough to explain what was happening inside us.My mother’s voice was still in my head.I never abandoned you.I closed my eyes and rested my head against the window.I wanted to believe those words completely,
Contract Marriage with My Hockey Alpha The Name In The Photograph
CHAPTER EIGHTY FiveThe Name in the PhotographScarlett’s POVFor several seconds after Adeline spoke the name, I could not move, because the sound of it seemed to fill the entire room while my mind struggled to connect it to the face in the photograph, and even though I had never personally known the man standing beside my mother, something about his name felt familiar enough to make the back of my neck grow cold.“Gabriel,” Adeline repeated quietly, watching my face carefully as though she already knew how difficult the truth would be for us to accept.Ryan stared at her.“Gabriel what?”Adeline took a slow breath.“Gabriel Hart.”Ryan’s expression changed immediately.I turned toward him.“You know him?”He remained silent for a moment before finally nodding.“I knew him when I was younger.”Adeline looked at him.“Your father trusted him.”Ryan’s jaw tightened.“My father trusted a lot of people.”“Gabriel was more than a friend.”“What was he?”“Your father’s business partner.”R
Contract Marriage with My Hockey Alpha She Left
CHAPTER EIGHTY Five The Woman Who LeftScarlett’s POVThe address on Ryan’s phone remained on the screen for several seconds, and even though it was only a collection of numbers and a street name, I could not explain why looking at it made my heart beat faster, as if some part of me already knew that whatever waited at the end of that road would change everything we thought we understood about my past.Ryan stood beside the table with his phone still in his hand, his expression serious as he read the message again, while Eleanor remained near the window with her walking stick resting against her leg, and Mr. Alden looked more worried than I had ever seen him before.I looked at all of them before finally speaking.“Who lives there?”Mr. Alden took a slow breath before answering.“Nobody, at least not officially.”Ryan looked at him.“What does that mean?”“The property belongs to an old friend of mine, but it has been empty for years, although someone has been maintaining it from a d
Contract Marriage with My Hockey Alpha The Locked Room
CHAPTER EIGHTY-FIVEThe Locked RooomRyan’s POVThe drive back to the mansion was quieter than the journey to the old house.Neither Scarlett nor I spoke much because there was too much to think about, and every answer we had found seemed to bring another question with it.The small brass key rested in Scarlett’s hand.She had barely let it go since we found it.Every few minutes, she looked down at it as though she expected it to explain itself.I understood how she felt.The key was small enough to disappear inside my palm, yet it had become one of the most important things we had ever found.It was connected to her mother.It was connected to the day Scarlett disappeared.And somehow, it was connected to my family.I looked at Scarlett.“You should rest when we get home.”She shook her head.“I don’t think I can.”“You’ve been through a lot today.”“I know.”She looked out the window.“But I feel like we’re finally close.”I reached across the seat and took her hand.“We are.”She l
Contract Marriage with My Hockey Alpha The House That Remembered
CHAPTER EIGHTY Two The House That RememberedScarlett’s POVThe road to my old home seemed much shorter than I remembered, although I knew that was probably because I was no longer the little girl who had once travelled along it without understanding why certain places felt important to her.I sat quietly beside Ryan in the back seat while Eleanor sat across from us, holding her walking stick between both hands, and Mr. Alden sat beside the driver with a folder resting on his lap.Nobody spoke much during the journey.There were too many thoughts between us, too many questions that had followed us from the cemetery to the mansion and then to Mr. Alden’s house, and now all of those questions were leading us toward the one place I had spent years trying not to remember.My childhood home.I stared through the window as the city slowly disappeared behind us, replaced by narrow roads, tall trees, small houses, and fields that looked strangely familiar even though I could not remember vis
Contract Marriage with My Hockey Alpha Against Him?
CHAPTER FIVE — Scarlett POVI was asleep when my phone started ringing.At first, I didn’t want to open my eyes. My body felt too heavy, and my mind was still stuck in everything that had happened over the past few days. The ringing continued anyway, sharp and persistent, until I finally forced my
Contract Marriage with My Hockey Alpha The Problem
CHAPTER fourRyan POVI took her home last night.Even now, sitting alone in my office, I still could not understand why.Bringing Scarlett Hayes to my pack had never been part of my plans.In fact, if anyone had asked me yesterday morning what I would be doing today, this would have been the last
Contract Marriage with My Hockey Alpha With Him
CHAPTER THREE — Scarlett POVFor a moment, nobody moved.The silence in the hall after he said those words felt heavy, like the air itself had been pressed down on everyone’s shoulders.I could still feel the shock in my body and my stepmother was still holding my arm, but her grip had loosened sli
Contract Marriage with My Hockey Alpha My Opponent
CHAPTER ONE — My Opponent Scarlett's POV This was the last game of the season and I kept telling myself not to think too much about it, but my mind wouldn’t stop going there no matter what, like it was stuck on a loop I couldn’t break out of.The last game meant everything or nothing for me, ther
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