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Chapter 140
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2026-06-13 16:49:27
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Coach looked at me with the careful attention of someone who has noticed that something is wrong and is giving it space to become words.“Noah. What did you want to tell us?”My eyes were still red. I hadn’t been able to do anything about that. I looked around the group — at faces I had trained beside and competed with and built something real alongside — and felt the weight of what I was about to do settle fully into my chest.“We’ve come a long way,” I said. “All of us. And we won today.”They nodded. Waiting.“I can’t stay quiet anymore.” I stopped. Started again. “I have something to tell you.”Coach stepped forward. “Noah. You look pale. What’s going on?”“I’m not Noah.”The room went completely still.Someone laughed — nervous, short, the laugh of a person hoping they’ve misheard something. “Come on, man. This isn’t the time for jokes. We just won — let’s go celebrate—”“I wish I was joking.” The tears came before I could stop them, which was fine because I had stopped trying to
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The first half ended well enough that Coach was smiling — genuinely, the full version, the one he reserved for moments that exceeded what he had planned for.“You’re doing beautifully,” he said, looking around the group. “All of you. This is exactly what we prepared for.” His eyes moved to me. “Noah — that goal goes in the history books. I mean that.”I managed a smile.Then his expression shifted. “Kai. What happened out there? I saw you—”“It’s okay, Coach.” I stood. “I’ll talk to him before the second half.”He looked between us. “Make sure you do.”I found a corner of the corridor where no one was passing and waited for Kai to follow. He came — reluctantly, his jaw set, the cold version of him that I had hoped we were permanently past.“What is wrong with you?” The words came out with more force than I intended. “I understand we have things between us — I understand that — but not today. Not here.” My voice cracked slightly at the edges. “You didn’t even celebrate when I scored. I
Ice Between Rivals Chapter 142
The days that followed were quiet in the way that hurts.Kai didn’t speak to me. Didn’t look at me. The anger that lived in his expression whenever our paths crossed reminded me so completely of our earliest weeks together that it felt like something had been rewound — all the grapes and hot water bottles and three hours on an ice rink floor simply erased, the version of us that had existed before reduced back to two people who occupied the same space without warmth.I told myself it was for the best.I had made the decision for both of us and I was standing by it. Being apart from him was the right thing. I was lying to him — had been lying to him from the beginning — and whatever we had tried to build on that foundation was always going to be compromised by it. The kindest thing I could do, for him and for myself, was let the distance do its work.I almost believed it on the good days.Ken and Miller noticed. Of course they did — they noticed everything that happened on that ice and
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“What the hell are you doing, Kai?” he asked. But I was too focused to answer. My hands gripped the steering wheel so tightly that my knuckles had turned white. “Kai, I’m talking to you. What the hell are you doing?” I scoffed and kept driving like a madman. I didn’t stop anywhere. I just kept going. Faster. And faster. “Kai!” he shouted. “Please stop. This isn’t the right way to deal with this situation!” I let out a bitter laugh and pressed harder on the accelerator. “Since you don’t want to talk to me and you’ve been clearly ignoring me, then let me do this.” “Kai, okay, okay, listen to me—” “I’m not going to listen to you!” I shouted. For the first time, I saw genuine fear in his eyes. But I was too far gone to care. “You think this will fix anything?” I continued. “Do you know how many days I’ve spent asking myself what I did wrong to deserve this silence? Do you know how many nights I missed you? How many times I wanted to call you?” My voice cracked.
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I had made my peace with it.That was the thing I kept coming back to, sitting in the quiet of the room waiting for him to return. I had looked at every angle of what loving Noah meant — what it cost, what it complicated, what it said about me and about us — and I had arrived, slowly and without fanfare, at acceptance. Not because it was simple. Because he was worth the complexity.I knew the consequences could be severe. I could see clearly that our future had no obvious shape, no road that other people had walked before us that we could follow. But I loved him. That was the fact that sat at the centre of everything else and refused to move.So when he said he was going to Davis, my heart had moved in a way I couldn’t entirely explain. Not jealousy this time — something more like dread. A quiet, persistent sense that something was wrong that I didn’t have the information to name yet.I waited.He didn’t come.I checked the time. Checked again. Moved around the room. Sat back down. Th
Ice Between Rivals Chapter 139
I walked back to his house with the number plate in my hand and the anger sitting high and hot in my chest.He was still on the sofa when I pushed the door open. Still wrapped in the blanket, still pale, still looking like someone who needed rest. I held the plate up where he could see it clearly.“What is this?” My voice was controlled but only just. “Explain it to me.”He looked at it.Then he looked at me.And the expression on his face — the specific, deflating quality of it — told me everything before he opened his mouth. He sat up slowly, the blanket falling away, and put both feet on the floor.“Noah. It’s not what—”“Don’t.” I stepped closer. “Don’t start with it’s not what you think. Because I’ve been looking at this number for weeks. I know exactly what it means.” My voice rose despite my effort to keep it level. “You knocked him down, Davis. You deliberately drove at him. Because of a girl? Because of Hanna? You tried to take someone’s life over that?”He stood up. “I was a
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