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Chapter 18: The Thorn In My Heart
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The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 70: Blood, Lip, And Ruin
NOAH'S POV The knock on her door was soft and I knew she had heard it by all means.I stood in the dimly lit hallway of her dorm building, blood still drying on my hoodie, my split lip throbbing with every heartbeat. My knuckles burned where they’d split open against Jax’s face. I shouldn’t be here. I should’ve gone back to my own room, iced my hand, and tried to forget the way my friend’s words had cut deeper than any punch.But I couldn’t stay away. The door opened. Elena stood there in nothing but an oversized t-shirt and sleep shorts, hair messy like she’d been tossing and turning. Her eyes widened the second she saw me with the blood on my lip, the bruise blooming along my jaw, and the raw splits on my knuckles. For a split second, something soft and worried flashed across her face. Then it hardened into that familiar fire I craved like oxygen.“What the hell happened to you?” she demanded, her brows furrowing obviously not liking the sight of me on her doorstep.I didn’t answer
The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 69: Broken Things, Broken People
Elena’s POVThe knock on my dorm door came at 11:47 p.m.I knew it was him before I even opened it. My heart did that stupid little flip it always did when Noah was near, even when I was mad at him especially when I was mad at him.I opened the door.Noah stood in the hallway looking like he’d been dragged through hell. His gray hoodie had a smear of dried blood on the collar. His bottom lip was split open, swollen, and there was a fresh bruise blooming along his jaw. His knuckles on his right hand were split too. He looked exhausted. Guilty and still so stupidly beautiful it made my chest ache.“What happened?” I asked.He just stood there, eyes searching mine like he was waiting for me to slam the door in his face.“Jax,” he finally said. “We got into it during class.”I stared at him. “You fought Jax? Your friend?”He nodded once. “He said something he shouldn’t have.”I didn’t ask what. I wasn’t sure I wanted to know. Instead, I stepped aside and let him in. The door clicked shut
The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 68: Broken Trust
NOAH’S POVMy sneakers screeched against the hardwood of the court, a sharp, piercing sound that ricocheted off the steel rafters and drilled directly into my skull. "Again!" Coach barked from the baseline, his whistle clamped between his teeth. "Blue line and back, Hale! Look like you actually want to be in the tournament tomorrow!"My lungs were on fire but the physical pain was the only thing keeping me from completely snapping. I slammed the ball onto the floor, catching it on the rebound, and sprinted.I needed the burn. I needed my muscles to scream and my vision to blur at the edges. I was trapped. Every single wall I’d ever built to keep myself safe had just turned into a cage."Yo, Captain! Heads up!"The voice cut through my haze just as I hit the three-point line.Jax. He caught my chest pass, his sneakers sliding on the glossy floor as he spun and dropped a casual layup through the net. He was grinning, his dark curls damp with sweat, completely unbothered by the fact th
The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 67: The Missing File
ELENA’S POVThe cursor just blinked.I sat completely frozen in my desk chair. My desktop wasn't right. I’m meticulous about my workspace. I have to be. When you're juggling twenty credit hours, and athletic department press releases, you don't leave things messy. But right now, the icons were shifted two inches to the left. The trash bin was empty—even though I’d dumped three drafts of the post-game summary into it last night before my brain shut down.My palm felt slick against the mouse as I forced myself to double-click the local drive.Documents. Athletic Communications. Spring Tourney. Hidden System Archive.I hit the enter key. The window loaded, and my stomach instantly turned entirely inside out, a violent wave of nausea hitting my throat so hard I had to press my hand over my mouth to keep from gagging.The subfolder was empty. The one titled The Real Noah was all gone. Completely wiped from the directory."No, no, no, no," I muttered as my fingers flew across the keys, ripp
The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 66: Something Is Amiss
NOAH'S POVThe gym room smelled like iron, sweat, and the faint rubber burn of mats that had seen too many battles. Clangs of plates echoed off the walls as guys pushed through their last sets of the day. Laughter mixed with grunts, the usual post-practice chatter that usually settled after a long day of heavy lifting.I finished my set of pull-ups with muscles burning, and dropped to the floor, wiping sweat from my face with the bottom of my shirt. My eyes scanned the room out of habit — checking on the call me but, making sure no one was pushing too hard after the tough practice Coach had run us through. But my gaze kept landing on Jax.He was spotting Marcus on the bench press, but his attention was somewhere else. His eyes flicked to his phone again, resting on the floor beside the rack. He checked it for the third time in ten minutes before Marcus even finished the rep. When Marcus racked the bar with a heavy clang, Jax forced a laugh and clapped him on the shoulder, but the smil
The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 65: The Boy Beneath The Captain
ELENA’S POV2:17 a.m.The dorm room was wrapped in darkness except for the soft blue glow of my laptop screen. My eyes felt like sandpaper and were smarting. My neck ached from being hunched over for so long, but I couldn’t stop. The words were spilling out of me like they’d been locked away for years, finally breaking free in the quiet hours when no one else was watching.I was writing the article I could never publish. The one the world wouldn't get to see."The Real Noah Hale: The Boy Beneath the Captain, The Grief Beneath the Game."I don't know what really inspired that title. My fingers kept flying across the keyboard, my heart pounding harder with every sentence. This wasn’t the safe, professional profile the media department wanted. This was raw. Honest. Dangerous and crossing the line.I wrote about the boy who carried the weight of his team on his shoulders while carrying the ghosts of his stepfather’s mistakes in silence. The boy who smiled for the cameras and the scouts bu
The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 6: The Traitor On The Sideline
NOAH'S POV Practice was usually the only thing that could kill the noise in my head. The basketball court was a kingdom of logic: if you put in the work, you got the result. If you hit the apex of your jump, the shot was yours. The ball slapped against my palm as I drove past Marcus. I pivoted, my
The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 10: The Architect Of Disaster
NOAH’S POVMy apartment usually felt like a sanctuary but tonight, it felt like a cage. The space was built to house three massive athletes, but with half the starting lineup and Elena Voss currently occupying the corner of my kitchen, the walls were closing in.The air was a suffocating mix of sea
The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 9: The Brink Of Ruin
ELENA'S POV The Journalism Department’s basement was a graveyard of ink-stained desks. At eight in the morning, the air was filled with the smell of old paper and the burnt, bitter scent of Dr. Reyes’s third espresso. I stood in front of her desk, my shoulders stiff and my heart beating against my
The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 7: Everything He Left on My Skin
ELENA’S POVI told myself I’d only wait five minutes, but that was an hour ago. Now I was standing in the corridor like a complete idiot, Noah’s varsity jacket folded too neatly in my arms, pretending I had a shred of dignity left. Every time the heavy doors at the end of the hallway groaned open,
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