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Chapter 213

Author: Rejoice Ezeh
last update publish date: 2026-08-09 11:08:12

Ember's POV

"My whole family has been waiting for it," Knox said.

He was still looking at the ceiling. The lamplight on his face made him look younger than the campus version — less managed, less carrying. Just him, in a room, saying true things.

"My father since before I could understand what fated mate meant," he said. "My mother — she has been waiting in a different way, the quieter way, but it is there. James knows it is the thing that matters most to the pack's future." He paused. "Everyon
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  • My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret    Chapter 213

    Ember's POV"My whole family has been waiting for it," Knox said.He was still looking at the ceiling. The lamplight on his face made him look younger than the campus version — less managed, less carrying. Just him, in a room, saying true things."My father since before I could understand what fated mate meant," he said. "My mother — she has been waiting in a different way, the quieter way, but it is there. James knows it is the thing that matters most to the pack's future." He paused. "Everyone who knows what I am has been waiting for this specific thing to happen for twenty years.""And you?" I said.He turned his head to look at me."I used to wait for it too," he said. "When I was younger. When the curse was still new and the hope that there was a way through it felt like something worth orienting toward." He held my gaze. "I do not wait for it anymore.""Why not?" I said."Because waiting for a fate you cannot control is a way of not being present in the life you actually have,"

  • My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret    Chapter 212

    Ember's POVWe lay on the bed looking at the ceiling for a while after he said it.Then I said, "You should listen to them."Knox turned his head to look at me."Your parents," I said. "The search. The priest, the Lycan world, all of it." I kept my eyes on the ceiling. "They are not wrong. Finding your fated mate is—" I stopped. "It is important. For the curse and for the pack and for everything your father has been building that you are going to inherit." I paused. "You should be looking.""I am not going to do that," Knox said.I turned to look at him."Knox—""No," he said. Flat. Clear. The voice he used when a decision had been made and the conversation about it was over."It is the right thing," I said."For whom?" he said."For you," I said. "For the pack. For the curse that has been sitting on you since you were twelve." I held his gaze. "You told me about it yourself. The only way through it is the fated mate. The only way the second time stops being a death sentence for the p

  • My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret    Chapter 211

    Knox's POVI held the letter for a moment.Then Lauren reached out and took it back.Not aggressively — the smooth, natural motion of someone who had decided something in the space between handing it over and watching me hold it. She folded it along its original creases and put it in the pocket of her cardigan and looked at me with the specific expression she used when a conversation had reached its endpoint."What is it?" I said."Nothing that concerns you right now," she said.I looked at her."It came from the Lycan world," I said. "The seal—""Old contacts," she said. "From before your father and I were together. I had connections of my own before this pack and some of them still write." She said it evenly, in the voice she used when she had decided on a version and was committing to it. "Personal matters. My parents. Nothing that affects the house."I held her gaze.Lauren held mine back.She was better at this than most people. She had been doing it since before I could read a r

  • My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret    Chapter 211

    Knox's POVI held the letter for a moment.Then Lauren reached out and took it back.Not aggressively — the smooth, natural motion of someone who had decided something in the space between handing it over and watching me hold it. She folded it along its original creases and put it in the pocket of her cardigan and looked at me with the specific expression she used when a conversation had reached its endpoint."What is it?" I said."Nothing that concerns you right now," she said.I looked at her."It came from the Lycan world," I said. "The seal—""Old contacts," she said. "From before your father and I were together. I had connections of my own before this pack and some of them still write." She said it evenly, in the voice she used when she had decided on a version and was committing to it. "Personal matters. My parents. Nothing that affects the house."I held her gaze.Lauren held mine back.She was better at this than most people. She had been doing it since before I could read a r

  • My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret    Chapter 209

    Knox's POVI had taken two steps into the corridor when I heard Lauren get up from her chair."Wait," she said.I turned around.She was on her feet, which was unusual — Lauren completed conversations sitting down as a general rule. Standing meant she had something else and had decided it could not wait until I was further away.She came to the doorway."If she is the one," she said. Her voice had a quality I had not heard in it during the earlier part of the conversation — the careful quality was gone, replaced by something more immediate. "If she is actually the fated mate—" She stopped. She looked at me with the specific expression she had when she had been holding a feeling back and had decided to stop holding it. "Knox. Do you understand what that means for this family?""Yes," I said."The curse broken," she said. "Twenty years of watching you manage it. Twenty years of knowing what it cost you." She shook her head slightly. "I have been waiting for this. I did not know who it w

  • My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret    Chapter 208

    Knox's POVI had my hand on the door handle when Lauren said it."She has wolf blood."Not a question. She was processing it out loud — the specific way she processed things that had arrived and needed to be placed somewhere accurate.I turned around."Yes," I said.Lauren was looking at the window with the expression she had when something had reorganized what she had thought she understood."I thought she was human," she said. "When you described her at school — the hybrid situation, the episodes, the training with James — I understood there was something unusual. But I assumed the wolf element was external. A connection to the wolf world through you." She looked at me. "I did not understand it was in her.""Her mother," I said. "Her mother carried wolf blood. She died when Ember was born and her father never explained it properly. She has been carrying it her whole life without knowing what it was."Lauren turned that over."The episodes," she said. "The midnight attacks. The stren

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  • My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret    Chapter 60

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