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chapter 114: Her Own Name
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The Forbidden Puck: The Coach's Daughter Is Off Limits Chapter 120: Tomorrow
POV: RileyHe laughed.Not the almost-laugh I had been collecting all semester. The real one. Soft and brief and completely unguarded, the specific laugh of someone who has been holding something tightly for a very long time and something has just released the grip.It was the most human sound I had heard from him."I have been not doing that for longer," he said.I smiled.Not the managed version. Not the composed version I deployed in rooms that required composure. The one that arrived before I could do anything about it, the one that took over my whole face without permission, the one I had been controlling since I was four years old because unguarded things in my father's world were things that could be used.Ray looked at that smile the way he looked at things that mattered. Completely. Without performing a reaction to it."There it is," he said quietly."There what is," I said."That," he said. "The one you do not plan."I looked at him. The cold pressing around us on the path o
The Forbidden Puck: The Coach's Daughter Is Off Limits Chapter 119: Certain
POV: RileyHe was in the corridor when I came through.Not waiting dramatically. Just standing near the wall with his hands in his jacket pockets, the specific stillness of someone who had been there a while and was comfortable being there a while longer. The corridor smelled like cold rubber and the particular athletic smell of a building that had held a lot of people working hard. The overhead light buzzed faintly above us.I was still in my skating dress. Hair still pinned. The cold of the ice still in my skin and the adrenaline of the performance still warm underneath it, the specific combination of those two things that existed only in the minutes immediately after. It made everything very clear. Very present.He looked at me the way he had looked at me from the third row. No performance. Just the real version."You came," I said."I was always going to come," he said.I looked at him for a long moment.Not building toward something. Not deciding. The decision had been made somew
The Forbidden Puck: The Coach's Daughter Is Off Limits Chapter 118: The Lead
POV: RileyThe showcase was on a Thursday.Two days before the formal hearing. I had not planned the proximity. The skating program's schedule had been set in October, before the hearing date was confirmed, and the two things had simply landed where they landed. Close enough that they existed in the same atmosphere. Far enough that each one could be entirely itself.I woke at five-thirty. Made tea. Laced my shoes in the correct order. Walked to the rink in the dark December morning with my skating bag on my shoulder and my breath making small clouds that the cold took sideways.The ice was clean. Resurfaced overnight. Not a mark on it.That always mattered on showcase days. The specific perfection of unmarked ice before the first blade touched it. The reminder that the surface was ready and what happened next was entirely about the person on it.Coach Farrow ran us through the warm-up sequence at seven. Six skaters, focused and quiet, the specific pre-performance energy that was diffe
The Forbidden Puck: The Coach's Daughter Is Off Limits Chapter 127: What Liam Heard
POV: RayLate practice ran until eight-thirty.The second-to-last week of the semester and Coach Brannigan was running us through defensive sequences with the specific intensity of someone who understood that the end of a semester was when attention drifted and attention drifting in defensive sequences cost games. Nobody complained. We were all too tired to complain. We just skated.By the final drill I was in my body the way I liked to be in my body, warm through and fully present, the specific grace of exhaustion that came from two hours of nothing except the ice and the play and the thing I had been doing since I was fourteen.We came off at eight-thirty. The locker room was its usual end-of-practice noise, equipment and voices and the sound of skate bags hitting benches. I sat at my stall and started unlacing and let the ordinary ritual carry me for a few minutes.Liam dropped down beside me. Not asking anything yet. Just sitting. The specific patience of someone who had decided t
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 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
The Forbidden Puck: The Coach's Daughter Is Off Limits Chapter Four: He Said Walk Away
Riley The Rink Bar was everything I hated about hockey culture crammed into one sticky, overheated room.Blue and gold jerseys clashed everywhere I looked, Falcons and Eagles pretending to be civil while shooting daggers at each other over red plastic cups. The music was too loud, the bass vibrati
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?
RileyI had done exactly one thing in my entire life without my father’s approval, and I was determined not to mess it up.Figure skating.It was my secret rebellion, planned and saved for in silence. While my father graded papers and muttered about “frivolous pursuits,” I watched old Olympic routi
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