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Chapter 99: The Response
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The Forbidden Puck: The Coach's Daughter Is Off Limits Chapter 116: Structure
POV: RileyThree weeks felt like the right amount of time.Not too close. Not so far that the waiting became its own weight. Three weeks was the length of a final push, the kind of focused period I recognized from skating competitions, from exam blocks, from every season of my life when I had understood that the best way to carry something significant was to build everything around it as solidly as possible and trust the structure to hold.I started Monday.Skates on at six. The ice before anyone else. Back edges until my legs were warm and my mind was clear and the specific cold of the rink had pressed through everything else and left only the present moment. The double axel, which I had stopped thinking about and simply did, landing clean on the first attempt the way it had been landing since the showcase. The spin sequence, tightened and centered and pulled in fast.Coach Farrow arrived at seven and watched for ten minutes without speaking.Then she said: "You are preparing for som
The Forbidden Puck: The Coach's Daughter Is Off Limits chapter 115: Three Weeks
POV: RileyWe talked for forty minutes.Not the strategic version of Clara. Not the woman on the phone who delivered information in careful measured doses, who chose what to release and when with the precision of someone who had been managing this operation for three years. This was the other version. The one that existed underneath the strategy.She was quieter. That was the first thing. The phone voice had carried authority and weight. This voice was more careful. Like someone who had been performing a specific role for so long that stepping out of it required conscious effort."How long have you been angry," I said. About twenty minutes in. When the conversation had found enough ground that the real questions had somewhere to land.A pause."Three years," she said. "Not consistently. In waves." Another pause. "Angry that I was the one who found it. Angry that finding it cost me a year of my life and a degree I had to rebuild somewhere else. Angry that I had to be the person who sta
The Forbidden Puck: The Coach's Daughter Is Off Limits chapter 114: Her Own Name
POV: RileyHartwell's lawyer issued the statement at two in the afternoon.I read it on my phone standing outside the library, the cold pressing through my jacket, the words doing the specific thing that carefully managed legal language did, which was to say nothing while appearing to say something. Committed to full cooperation. Confident the complete record will provide appropriate context. Grateful for the oversight process.Appropriate context. That was the phase that sat wrong. As if seven confirmed counts had a context that would make them appropriate.I put my phone in my pocket and went inside.The press picked up Clara's name by four o'clock.Not through Amara. Through the oversight board's formal document, which had named her directly as the first documented victim in the twelve-year pattern. Her name in clean institutional language. Clara Ashford. First documented victim. Named in the formal record.Three years of careful anonymity ended by a public document. Not dramatical
The Forbidden Puck: The Coach's Daughter Is Off Limits Chapter 113: The Three Names
POV: RileyThe preliminary findings published on a Tuesday at nine in the morning.I was in the committee room when they went live. Not by accident. Dr. Venn had scheduled a special session specifically for the release, so the committee could review the document together before the public had it, so the student representative could read her own name in the acknowledgment section in a room with people who understood what the document contained rather than alone with a screen.That was a specific kind of consideration. I noticed it and filed it.Dr. Venn set the document in front of each committee member at eight fifty-five. Printed. Not digital. The weight of paper. The permanence of ink. Seven pages. The oversight board's formal letterhead at the top.I looked at it for a moment before opening it.Then I opened it.Seven counts of research grant misappropriation confirmed.I read that line three times. Not because I did not understand it. Because I needed to feel the full weight of th
The Forbidden Puck: The Coach's Daughter Is Off Limits Chapter 112: Preethi's Exhale
POV: RileyPreethi texted on a Thursday morning between the committee meeting and lunch.Coffee? I have news. Good news for once.I was still in the corridor outside Room 204, my notebook under my arm, the specific warmth of a Thursday committee meeting still settling in my chest. The meetings had become the rhythm of my week the way practice at four had become the rhythm of my afternoons. Something that required full presence and gave back clarity.Twenty minutes, I typed. The place on Garfield.She was already there when I arrived, hands around a mug, the specific posture of someone who had been sitting with something good and was ready to say it out loud. She looked up when I came in and something in her face was different from every other time I had seen her face this semester.The held quality was gone.Not entirely. You did not hold something for fourteen months and put it down overnight. But the specific tension of someone managing an ongoing threat had released into something
The Forbidden Puck: The Coach's Daughter Is Off Limits Chapter 111: The Hallway
POV: RileyI met Dara on Tuesday at ten.She was already at the library table when I arrived, laptop open, a small camera on the table beside it that she had not turned on, which I registered immediately as a deliberate choice. She was twenty, slight, with the specific focused energy of someone who had been working on one thing with complete attention for three months. She stood when I came in and extended her hand and looked at me directly."Riley Ashford," she said. Not nervously. Just confirming."Dara Osei," I said. I shook her hand and sat across from her and looked at the camera that was not turned on. "Thank you for leaving that off.""I never film a first meeting," she said. "The first meeting is for trust. Film comes after trust." She held my gaze. "I learned that from watching the wrong kind of documentary.""What kind is the wrong kind," I said."The kind where the filmmaker needs the story more than they respect the people inside it," she said. "You can always tell. The su
The Forbidden Puck: The Coach's Daughter Is Off Limits Chapter Three: I Need To Find Her
Riley's Pov Marvel,” I said, the word coming out as a relieved sigh.He didn’t smile. His eyes, usually so warm when they landed on me, were hard. “What’s going on?”“I was looking for you. I came down to… I saw the end of the game.” I took a step toward him, wanting to bridge the gap, to get us a
The Forbidden Puck: The Coach's Daughter Is Off Limits Chapter Two: You Were Saying?
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The Forbidden Puck: The Coach's Daughter Is Off Limits Chapter 1: To Baby Sit Her?
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The Forbidden Puck: The Coach's Daughter Is Off Limits Chapter Five: The Assignment Begins
POV: RayMonday came like a punishment. I stood outside the athletics media room with my hands in my jacket pockets, telling myself I was calm. I was not calm. I'd barely slept. Every time I closed my eyes I saw the photograph on Hartwell's desk, the girl with the laughing eyes and the swinging hai
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