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Chapter 127

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last update Data de publicação: 2026-05-31 00:07:35

The coach looked around the locker room with the expression of a man who has been watching something develop and has decided it’s time to name it.

“You’ve been playing. Fine. But what is this fighting?” His eyes settled on me. “Noah. Talk.”

“Coach, the Rivens have been targeting me — pushing, stepping on my skates, it’s been deliberate the whole—”

He cut me off. Turned to Kai. “And you — instead of playing, you’ve been protecting him.” He looked at the room. “When did this become an emotional a
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  • Ice Between Rivals    Chapter 136

    “Noah,” Kai said, holding up his phone. “You’re trending.” “I know.” I sat on the edge of my bed and looked at my own screen. “I genuinely don’t know how to feel about it.” “People love you.” He said it with a specific quality in his voice that had nothing to do with pride. “Boys and girls both.” He paused. “All of them.” I looked up. “Are you jealous?” I asked. “No,” he said immediately. I stood up. “Are you jealous?” “I just don’t know how to feel about all these people—” He stopped. “What if you pick one of them?” I looked at him for a moment — this person who had carried me through rain and found a necklace on an empty ice rink and paid strangers to walk up a hill with love confessions — and felt something so warm and so specific move through my chest that I couldn’t contain the smile. I stood on my toes. Both hands on his cheeks. “Nobody,” I said clearly, looking directly at him, “is taking me away from my baby.” Something in his face shifted completely.

  • Ice Between Rivals    Chapter 135

    “That’s what you want to hear, isn’t it?” Kai said, with the easy composure of someone who has decided to own the moment completely. “But we’re just late. Family issues. Nothing more.”Coach looked at him for a long moment. Then — remarkably — let it go.“Practice,” he said. “Separately today.”I looked at Kai. He nodded once, barely perceptible, and we split.I found Ken and Miller and skated over with the casual energy of someone who has nothing particular on their mind.They looked at me.“Anything you want to tell us?” Ken asked.“No,” I said pleasantly.“You’ve been distant.”“I was sick. He’s my roommate — he helped out. Nothing to analyse.” I kept my voice light. “Can we just practice?”They accepted it, with the specific expression of people who don’t fully believe something and have decided to let it go for now.We began the stretches — floor work, leg strengthening, spread out across the ice in rows.I was mid-stretch, focused, minding my own business entirely, when somethin

  • Ice Between Rivals    Chapter 134

    My father’s hand came down on the desk with enough force to make me flinch.He looked between us — the particular look of a man who has been patient for longer than he intended and has reached the end of it. “When did this start? I trusted both of you. And what do I hear from Coach? That you’ve been skipping practice. Sneaking out. What exactly is going on?”I glanced at Kai.Kai glanced back.The relief that moved through me was so complete I almost laughed. He didn’t know about us. This was about practice.Before I could construct an answer, Kai spoke. “Noah has been unwell. I didn’t want to worry you — I’ve been taking him to the hospital in the evenings.” His voice was measured. Calm. The voice of someone delivering information rather than a story.My father’s expression shifted. The anger softened by a degree. “You should have told me sooner.” He looked at me. “Are you better now?”I nodded quickly. “Yes, sir.”“Good.” He straightened. “And another thing.” His voice returned to i

  • Ice Between Rivals    Chapter 133

    The road rose steeply above everything.From up here I could see the whole spread of it — rooftops, roads, the small moving shapes of people below — and my legs were doing something entirely involuntary about the height. I kept my eyes at mid-distance and tried not to think about how far down the ground was.Kai’s hands found mine. Large, warm, closing around them with the specific steadiness of someone who has made a decision about what you need before you’ve made it yourself.“Don’t be afraid,” he said. “I noticed how much heights bother you. Just like the dark.” He looked at me. “That night — when the electricity went and I didn’t come in — I was outside the door the whole time. I didn’t know what to do or say. I was so confused about everything. But I was there.”I looked at him. “I heard you,” I said quietly. “The breathing thing — what you told me to do. I used it.”He smiled. “I thought you weren’t listening to me.”“Weird guy,” I said.He let go of my hands.My eyes went wide.

  • Ice Between Rivals    Chapter 132

    The principal’s office smelled like old paper and mild authority.I sat in the chair across from his desk and tried to look like someone in possession of a reasonable amount of composure.“How can I help you, Noah?”“It’s about Kai Bennett, sir.” I held my hands still in my lap. “He’s been missing for a day. His phone is off. I’m worried something has happened to him.”The principal looked at me for a moment with the particular expression of an adult encountering something they find both concerning and endearing.“That’s very thoughtful of you,” he said — and there was a small, genuine warmth in it, the kind that arrives when someone is surprised by a person’s decency. “It says something about you, that you’d come here for someone else.” He leaned back slightly. “But you know how boys are. Stubborn. He likely left without asking permission, which means he’s in trouble — because Coach Merritt wouldn’t have authorised a day off for anyone right now.” He reached for his phone. “Let me ca

  • Ice Between Rivals    Chapter 131

    “I want to sleep next to you, Noah.”Kai said it with that easy grin of his — the one that made everything sound simple, like the most natural request in the world.No way, I thought immediately, my chest tightening.These were supposed to be my happiest days. And in so many ways they were — Kai, and what was growing between us, and the way he looked at me like I was someone worth looking at. But underneath all of it, quiet and persistent, was the worry. The constant, exhausting worry. Because if he got too close he would want more — more proximity, more openness, more of me — and every lie I had told was becoming heavier by the day.“No,” I said.“Come on, Noah. Please.” He shifted toward me slightly. “I won’t touch you. I just want to be close to you.” He paused. “Why are you always pushing your boyfriend away?”The word landed somewhere in my chest and just sat there.Boyfriend.“I’m your boyfriend,” he said again, softer this time, like he was trying the word on and finding he lik

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