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Chapter 23

Autor: Miss J
last update Data de publicação: 2026-03-13 23:18:37

Summer’s Pov

I woke up at six-fifty AM, stared at my ceiling for four full minutes, and then made the mistake of thinking about it.

The hand on my waist. The thumb on my chin. Those blue eyes, too close, too sharp, doing absolutely nothing to deserve the way my heart had completely lost its mind.

I sat up and pressed both palms against my face.

*Get it together, Summer.*

He said thank you. That was it. That was the whole thing. People say thank you every single day without tilting anyone's chin
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  • My Hockey Bully Stepbrother    Chapter 37

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  • My Hockey Bully Stepbrother    Chapter 35

    Summer's PovThe week moved like it was doing it on purpose. Slow and thick, like everything was wading through something.I barely saw Crew. Which was fine. It was actually ideal. After the classroom incident that I had filed under things we do not think about and the tutoring session where I had accused him of holding his pen wrong like a completely normal and sane person, some distance was exactly what I needed.I caught glimpses of him though. Once in the corridor with Richard, both of them standing near the study doorway, Crew with his hands in his pockets and Richard talking about something that had Crew nodding with that focused look he got when hockey was involved. Something about an upcoming game. A big one. I didn't hear the details but I saw Richard's face during that conversation and it was different from the one I'd seen before, more present, more interested.Crew also had an impromptu test mid-week. Physics.He got a B.I found out from Richard, who told me at dinner wit

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    Crew’s PovI watched Summer walk away.Objectively that scene was funny. I wasn't going to say that out loud but it was objectively funny. Summer Winters, who couldn't stand up for herself, is doing so now.Cute was not a word I was going to use. But, cute.I looked at Brianna.Brianna was red. Not embarrassed red, the furious red, the kind that started at her neck and moved upward, and she was staring at the direction Summer had gone with her hands clenched and her whole body coiled around something she hadn't been able to release.I checked my watch.Practice in forty minutes. I needed to get to the car, get home, get changed, get back out. I did not have time for whatever this was about to become."I don't have time for this," I said, and turned."Don't you dare."Her voice came out sharper than I expected. I stopped."Don't you dare walk away from me right now, Crew." She moved around to face me."You're seriously going to leave. Right now. After all of that.""I have practice.""

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    Summer's Pov I walk toward Crew's car, each step making me more annoyed. Why is he here? Why can't he just leave me alone?I bang on the window with my palm.The glass slides down smoothly, and Crew's face appears, that infuriating smirk already in place."Careful, sis." He gestures at the window

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  • My Hockey Bully Stepbrother    Chapter 15

    Summer's Pov This is so stupid.I walk away from Crew, my hands shaking with anger, trying to put as much distance between us as possible. The hallway is still crowded with people leaving the game, and I feel their eyes on me. Staring. Whispering.Crew's sister. That's the famous hockey player's s

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  • My Hockey Bully Stepbrother    Chapter 14

    Crew's PovI don't get a chance to see Summer's reaction properly because my teammates swarm me the second I hand the mic back."Dude, you have a sister?" Marcus slaps my helmet."Since when?" Jason adds, laughing."It's new," I say, trying to see through the crowd. But Summer's already gone, proba

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  • My Hockey Bully Stepbrother    Chapter 13

    Crews’s Pov I didn't even know Summer was going to be here.The thought hits me as I skate out onto the ice, my eyes scanning the crowd out of habit. And there she is, sitting in the middle section with Ruby, looking uncomfortable in a sea of Blackwood burgundy and gold.She's here for Tyler. Obvi

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