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Chapter 16: The Nerve I Did Not Know I Had
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2026-11-03 06:03:54
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Torin."Fuck."The word tore out of me as I stood in the snow with Sloane's phone crushed in my fist. How had I lost her? She had been ten feet away. I had heard her scream my name and I had still not reached her in time.My breath came hard and ragged, and I forced it down, because panic would not help her. If the team found out, it would be a disaster. A photographer under league protection, taken from inside the compound in the middle of the championship run. But I could not make myself settle long enough to think about who it could be either. Every name I tried slid out of my hands.Behind me, the guards were finally running, flashlights bobbing, voices crossing. The lights flickered back on all at once, and the courtyard looked small and ordinary under them, as if nothing had happened. I turned away from them. I could not explain this to anyone yet.I went back inside and changed fast, sweatpants traded for jeans, bare feet shoved into boots without socks, a coat dragged off the
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