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Chapter 146
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Ice Between Rivals Chapter 146
The maids took my bags upstairs and I had barely processed being home before I saw my father coming toward me.“Dad,” I said.He slapped me before I’d finished the word.I hit the ground. For a moment I just stayed there, looking at the floor, understanding with complete clarity that he had found out. Everything.“Stand up.” His voice carried through the hallway.I stood. Wiped a small line of blood from my mouth.“How dare you.” He was shaking with it. “Fooling me this entire time. Is this how you repay me? Is this what I deserve?”I had nothing left to give him in the way of apology. I had been apologising to everyone all day — Liam, the team, Maggie — and standing there with blood on my lip, looking at the man who had never once tried to know me, something in me simply stopped bending.“What you did,” I said, “was always for your own benefit. Never about me. Never about Noah. Just you.” I held his gaze even though my legs were shaking. “You listened to Kai. Not once did you listen
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I looked at her. “Mum. You knew?”She nodded gently.“How?” My eyes were still red, still searching her face for the explanation.She held my cheeks in both hands. “My baby. I overheard you and Maya talking — on the day we all went away for that vacation.” She paused. “I confronted her about it. Hard. She tried to protect you, Ava. I want you to know that. It wasn’t easy getting it out of her — it was a real fight.”Maya appeared behind her. “I’m sorry, Ava. I tried so hard to hide it, but she wouldn’t let it go. I begged her to keep it just between us.” She looked sheepish. “She did, thankfully. She’s known the whole time.”I pulled Maya into a hug. “Thank you,” I said to Maggie, over her shoulder. “For understanding. I genuinely don’t know how to tell you how much that means.”“I love you, baby,” Maggie said simply. “So I stayed quiet. That was easy enough.”I smiled despite everything.“Are you and Kai coming home today,” Maggie asked, “or should we expect you later?”“We’ll find o
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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
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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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