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Chapter 43
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2026-08-07 23:35:46
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Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His Chapter 45
Rosalie's POVThe first headache hit without warning, sharp enough that I had to grip the edge of the washstand to keep my knees from buckling entirely.It came on a morning that had started ordinarily enough, Elias already gone for early training, the small quarters quiet around me, the memory of that charged silence over the ruined dinner still lingering uncomfortably close to the surface no matter how many times I'd told myself, over the past three days, that I needed to stop feeling whatever I'd let myself feel that night.I'd been standing at the washstand, replaying the sound of his voice saying my name, that low, careful weight it had carried, and I'd made myself stop. Deliberately. Forcefully, the same way I'd been forcing myself to stop for days now, burying the ache under practicality, reminding myself it was too soon, too dangerous, too much like repeating a mistake I'd promised myself I'd never make twice.The pain arrived the exact instant I shoved the feeling back down.
Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His Chapter 44
Elias's POVI found Easton near the training yard fence again, the same spot as before, and the sight of him stopped me mid-stride before I'd even decided whether to approach.He looked worse. Considerably worse than the last time we'd stood in roughly this same place, weeks ago, hollowed out beneath the eyes, his usual composed bearing replaced by something restless and thin, like a man running on far less sleep than his body could sustain. Even from a distance, I could see his hands weren't quite still, fingers tapping an irregular, anxious rhythm against the fence rail."You look terrible," I said, coming to stand beside him, dropping the pretense of small talk entirely."Thank you. Very reassuring." He didn't look at me, his gaze fixed on the empty ice visible through the arena's far window. "Was there a reason you came to tell me that specifically, or is my appearance simply that alarming from across the yard?""You've looked steadily worse every time I've seen you for the past m
Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His Chapter 43
Rosalie's POVThe smoke hit me before I'd even opened the door, thick and acrid, curling out from under the frame in a way that made my stomach drop before I registered the sound of Elias swearing quietly on the other side.I pushed inside to find him standing over the small stove, waving a dish towel frantically at a pan that had, by any reasonable definition, stopped being dinner several minutes ago and become something closer to a small, controlled disaster."Don't," he said, not even turning around, apparently sensing my presence by scent alone the way he sometimes did. "Whatever you're about to say, don't.""I wasn't going to say anything." I set my things down near the door, fighting to keep my expression neutral. "I was simply going to ask whether we're eating charcoal for dinner, or whether there's a backup plan.""There's no backup plan. This was the backup plan." He finally turned, smoke-smudged and faintly singed at one eyebrow, holding up the ruined pan like evidence in a
Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His Chapter 42
Elias's POVCoach Reyes posted the final roster on a Tuesday morning, taped to the locker room door without ceremony, and I read my own name near the top of the list before I let myself fully believe it was real.E. Moss. No distinction beyond that, no note acknowledging six years of absence or the particular weight of the surname attached to it. Just a name, and a number, and a place on the Avalanche roster I'd earned through nothing but four weeks of showing up sharper than the men trying to keep me off it.I felt something settle in my chest at the sight of it, quiet and unexpected, not triumph exactly, nothing so simple as that, but something closer to relief. Proof, plain and undeniable, that six years away hadn't cost me the one thing I'd once been genuinely good at.The locker room buzzed with it for the rest of the week, comparisons I couldn't avoid overhearing no matter how deliberately I kept my head down at my own stall."Kid's been gone six years and skates like he never l
Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His Chapter 41
Rosalie's POVI found Owen in the courtyard on one of my better afternoons, sitting on the low wall near the training yard fence, apparently taking a break between drills, and something about his easy, unbothered posture made me linger longer than I intended when he waved me over."You're the wife," he said, grinning, entirely without the careful, calculated weight most people in this packhouse attached to the word. "Rosalie, right? Elias mentioned you, though I'd already heard plenty before that.""I'm sure you have." I settled onto the wall a careful distance from him, wary out of habit more than any real sense of danger. "Most of what people have heard probably isn't flattering.""Some of it wasn't," he admitted, unbothered by the honesty. "But I try not to trust rumors over what I actually see, and what I've seen so far doesn't match half of what gets whispered about you." He shrugged, easy, genuine. "You held your ground in that hall the day you arrived. Didn't flinch once, from
Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His Chapter 40
Rosalie's POVI lay awake long after Elias's breathing settled into the slow, even rhythm of real sleep, staring at the dark ceiling, chasing the feeling I'd been carefully not naming since the moment my fingers had lingered too long near his jaw.It wasn't gratitude. I made myself be honest about that much, alone in the dark where no one could witness the admission or use it against me later. Gratitude was simple, clean, the kind of feeling I understood completely, he'd saved my life, protected me with a marriage that cost him considerably more than it benefited him, and I was grateful, genuinely, for every bit of it.This wasn't that.This was lower, and hotter, and considerably more inconvenient, an ache that lived somewhere beneath my ribs and refused to be reasoned with, that had settled into my chest the moment his voice had gone rough saying my name and hadn't fully left since. I wanted him.Admitting it, even silently, even alone in the dark with no one to hear it, felt like s
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