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Distractions, Damn it.

Author: Ruby_Bloom
last update Last Updated: 2025-02-28 20:20:16

Grayson

I flick my wrist, sending the puck sailing toward the net. It should go in. It always does. But today, it doesn’t.

The clang of rubber against metal echoes through the rink as it smacks against the post, bouncing away uselessly.

I mutter a curse under my breath and push forward, but my passes are sloppy, my movements off. Every time I try to focus, my mind drags me back to last night—to that damn letter.

The look of fear in Raelynn’s eyes when I was just about to read the later.

She was scared.

Eyes wide, chest rapidly rising and falling.

It was the first time I’d ever seen her that vulnerable.

It only made me want to dig deeper.

I was just about it, then the doorbell rang.

Her relief was instant. That subtle sag of her shoulders, the way her lips had parted in a light exhale.

I should’ve opened the damn letter right then and there. But the doorbell kept ringing.

Which is exactly why I didn’t give her back the letter, and kept it with me.

A sharp whistle from Coach snaps me ba
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