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65 - Lennox
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2026-10-17 06:11:49
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Heart On Ice, Puck The Rules 68 - The Fire
Nova's POV The phone buzzed again in my hand before I could decide whether to answer.The same unknown number. One line of text.You shouldn’t try digging into the past.That was all.I stared at the words until they blurred. How did Harper find out? The question hit so hard the rest of the room went distant. Ryker was still standing a few feet away, still waiting for me to speak, but his voice faded under the sudden noise in my head. The video. The station. The report numbers. Someone already knew I had started pushing.“Nova.”I didn’t respond.“Nova. Look at me.”His hand closed around my arm, firm enough to cut through the static. I blinked and the equipment room came back into focus—the dust, the stacked mats, the locked door. He was watching me with real concern now.“What just happened?”Before I could answer, the phone rang. Same prefix as the station. I stepped back from him and answered.“Ms. Reyes?” The officer’s voice was tighter than it had been two days earlier. “I need
Heart On Ice, Puck The Rules 67 - Patterns
Nova's POV I spent the evening on my laptop with the door locked and every tab on private. Mr. Lennox. Managing partner. Decades of high-profile defense work. The firm’s website was polished and careful, full of language about protecting data privacy and human rights. The real information sat in old news articles, court summaries, and a few buried forum threads that hadn’t been scrubbed. The pattern showed up fast. A senator’s son accused of assaulting a girl in a school bathroom. Charges quietly reduced, then dropped. The girl transferred. A star athlete from another private school accused of sharing explicit photos without consent—case stalled, evidence issues, victim’s family suddenly unwilling to continue. A drunk-driving incident involving a board member’s nephew that never reached trial. A harassment complaint against a donor’s son that ended in a sealed settlement and a nondisclosure agreement. Different years. Different victims. Same firm. Same outcome more often than
Heart On Ice, Puck The Rules 66 - Too Far
Ryker's POV I saw the new writing on her locker before first period was even over.Fresh marker. Same style as before. Someone had added to the older messages instead of covering them. A small group stood nearby like they were waiting to see if she’d react this time. She didn’t. She opened the locker, took what she needed, and walked away without touching any of it.That was worse.I stood there longer than I should have, the noise of the hallway moving around me. The words from the front steps kept replaying whether I wanted them to or not. *Transaction. Climb into someone else’s life. You made those stories easy to believe.* I had told myself they needed to be that sharp. Nova wouldn’t have accepted a clean, quiet ending. She would have kept pushing, kept looking for the threat behind it. Soft words wouldn’t have convinced her. Only something that cut would.I still felt sick about how deep the cut had gone. I had gone overboard with the things I said.Harper found me at the end of
Heart On Ice, Puck The Rules 65 - Lennox
Nova's POV I sat on the floor until the shaking stopped. Only then did I let myself stand. My legs felt unsteady. The recording kept replaying in my head: Mia’s warning, Harper’s voice, Lily’s final scream, the moment the phone left her hand and the world turned to sky. I needed to move. Sitting with it would only let the panic grow. Ryker’s name came first, automatic and dangerous. I shut it down immediately. He was still walking the halls with Harper. He had looked me in the eye on the front steps and called everything between us a transaction. He had stood there while the school tore pieces off me and done nothing. Whatever history we had, it was not safe enough for this. One moment of weakness from him—or one calculated move from her—and the only real evidence I had would be gone before it could matter. Lydia was the only person left who made sense. The video wasn’t about her case, but it was about the same person and the same pattern. If the police saw what Harper had don
Heart On Ice, Puck The Rules 64 - The Password
Nova's POV I sat on the floor of my room with my back against the bed and the phone in both hands.The battery was high enough now. I had charged it fully the night before and kept it hidden. Every failed attempt from earlier still sat in my head like a warning. I couldn’t afford to lock it permanently.I stared at the cracked screen and tried to think the way Lily might have thought.Dates hadn’t worked. Common sequences hadn’t worked. Then a memory surfaced—not a full one, just a fragment. Ryker’s jersey number. The same number that had been on the back of his gear the first time I saw him by the trophy case. The number that still showed up in old team photos online. I decided to try a combination of all the numbers he had worn on his jersey while Lilly was alive. I typed all the numbers. 1187The phone vibrated once. The lock screen slid away.I stopped breathing.The home screen was sparse. A few apps. A photo of a balcony railing set as the background. My hands started shaking
Heart On Ice, Puck The Rules 63 - Power On
Nova's POV I waited until the house went completely quiet. My mom’s footsteps had stopped in the hallway a while ago. The television downstairs was off. Even the refrigerator had settled into its low night hum. I locked my bedroom door, pulled the desk lamp closer, and took the phone out of the bottom of my backpack. It looked worse under the light. Dried mud had hardened into every groove of the cracked case. Bits of leaf and grit were packed around the charging port and along the edges of the broken screen. The back was scraped raw in places, the original color almost gone. I set it on a clean towel and just stared at it for a moment, trying to accept that this small, filthy thing had been lying near the base of the building for months while the school told everyone Lily’s death was a closed case. I filled a bowl with warm water and a single drop of dish soap. Using a soft cloth and cotton swabs, I worked slowly. The mud came off in dark streaks. I cleaned the ports as careful
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