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2026-06-06 14:14:44
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Ice & Ivy - A Hockey Romance High Street Continued
POV: Americus BentleyI cannot sleep.This is not unusual for me. I have a lot of thoughts, and they tend to arrive at volume, crowding in one after another until the only way to quiet them is to let them run their course. Some nights I count the ways I might have handled a conversation differently. Other nights, like this one, I simply lie still and let the worry circle until it exhausts itself.But tonight the specific reason I cannot sleep is that Silver went to Ingalls alone after breakfast and has not come back. It is now somewhere past midnight, Silver's side of the room is empty, and I have been lying here for an hour watching the ceiling, trying to decide whether to text her or whether texting her would be the thing that pushes her further away from whatever she is working through. I have rehearsed three different messages in my head and deleted all of them before typing a single letter. Every version sounds either too casual or too invasive, and I know Silver well enough to u
Ice & Ivy - A Hockey Romance High Street
POV: Silver PrestonI have already half-regretted taking his arm before we reach the first streetlamp. The regret sits oddly alongside something warmer, something I am not ready to put a name to.He had caught up to me just outside the double glass doors of the athletic complex, stepping out into the snow right as I reached the bottom of the exterior ramp. My practice session had run past midnight, and my knee had been protesting every turn on the ice. When Weston fell into step beside me and offered his coat sleeve, taking it felt less like an invitation and more like a tactical concession against the ice. And perhaps against the lingering, unmoored confusion that has shadowed me since the courtyard encounter with Eli-the press of Eli's mouth, the unresolved silence that followed, and the frustrating reality that I still do not know what ground we stand on. Letting Weston bridge the distance felt, in that first split second, like an easy distraction from thoughts I could not quiet.T
Ice & Ivy - A Hockey Romance Suspended
POV: Silver PrestonWe walk out of the building without deciding to.It happens the way things happen between us, without announcement, without either of us saying *let's go outside*. One moment we stand in the corridor, and then the heavy door swings open, the February air hits my face, and we are outside, the warmth of the gala already a memory behind us.The Branford courtyard is empty.The security lamps throw their amber light across the cobblestones in the same pattern they have thrown it every night since September. Snow sits along the perimeter walls in the thin crusted layer that February produces, too old to be fresh and too cold to fully melt. The quiet presses in around us, broken only by the faint thread of jazz escaping from Woolsey Hall.My heels on the cobblestones make the sound they made the first time I walked through this gate.The first day.My bag was too heavy and my knee brace was rubbing against my jeans and I was performing casual with the focused effort of s
Ice & Ivy - A Hockey Romance Falling
POV: Eli HayesShe asks it again.Why do you care.A whisper this time, not a challenge. The empty rink catches it and holds it, the echo softening its edges until what remains sounds closer to genuine than anything she has directed at me since the Sterling steps. Even the silence afterward feels different, less like a standoff and more like an open hand.Her voice cracked in the middle of the sentence before this one. I heard it happen. The crack in someone's voice when they are fighting to stay controlled and the fight is almost lost is a sound I know well, from inside and from outside, and I have never found a way to make it easier to hear.I look at her. She is against the boards, white-knuckled fingers clawing into the yellow dasher cap behind her, her weight locked almost entirely on her right side to keep pressure off the left knee. The joint trembles every few seconds with the effort of holding her upright. Even in the dim light, the strain shows in the hard line of her jaw an
Ice & Ivy - A Hockey Romance The Second Time
POV: Silver Preston He shouldn't be here at all. The echo of my crash into the ice still rings in the quiet barn, and when I look toward the boards, Eli Hayes is already standing by the entry gate, chest heaving like he sprinted down the tunnel the moment the impact rattled the glass. Frost and ice shavings cling to my hip and leggings from the wipeout, and his eyes lock directly onto the hitch in my right leg before lifting to my face. He looks at me like I am reckless, not brave. I can see the judgment settling into the line of his jaw, the way his eyes track me as though I am a problem he has not yet decided how to solve. I turn my back on that look and push off toward the far end of the rink. I do not want to see whatever else lives behind his eyes right now. Whatever it is, I suspect it will only make this harder. Each stroke sends a fresh pulse of pain up from my knee, but my blades cut clean lines through the surface and I keep moving. I am not going to stand at the boards and
Ice & Ivy - A Hockey Romance The Attempt
POV: Silver PrestonMy knee screams the moment I push off the gate.I already know it before the first crossover, the way you know rain is coming before the first drop falls.The resolve that carried me through the athletic complex corridor and down to the preparation bench, that kept my fingers moving through the lacing ritual without shaking, does not follow me onto the ice. It stays behind somewhere near the boards, and I am left with only my body.Ingalls is nearly empty after the storm. The silence has a texture to it, thick and expectant, as if the building itself is waiting to see what I will do. I used to crave an audience. Now I am grateful no one is here to witness whatever this turns out to be.The overhead lights buzz their constant pale note above the rink surface. The smell is exactly what it has always been. Zamboni exhaust and the mineral sharpness in the back of your throat that tells your body it is time to work. I grew up with that smell. It should feel like coming
Ice & Ivy - A Hockey Romance The Diagnosis
POV: Silver PrestonThe world comes back in pieces.First, the sound.A steady electronic pulse that echoes from somewhere far away, then closer, then inside my skull.Beep. Beep. Beep.Each tone feels like a small hammer tapping against my consciousness, dragging me back from whatever dark place m
Ice & Ivy - A Hockey Romance The Fall
POV: Silver PrestonThe ice looks too clean to be real.I've skated on plenty of rinks. Cramped training facilities with flickering fluorescents. Outdoor ponds that crack under winter sun. Even the gleaming Olympic oval in Colorado Springs, where dreams feel as tangible as morning frost.But this?
Ice & Ivy - A Hockey Romance Cobblestones
POV: Silver PrestonUp close, Yale looms even larger than it did from the shuttle window.The Gothic spires press into the late afternoon sky, their shadows cutting long and dark across the courtyards below. I have competed in arenas built specifically to intimidate, designed with high ceilings and
Ice & Ivy - A Hockey Romance The Long Way Back
POV: Silver PrestonThe question won't leave me.If I couldn't skate, who was I?It follows me through every MRI scan, every consultation with specialists who speak in careful, measured tones about torn ACLs and damaged meniscus tissue. It echoes through physical therapy sessions at the San Jose sp
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