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Chapter 24: The Bus Ride From Hell

作者: Zara Lynn
last update 公開日: 2026-05-06 02:44:56

NOAH'S POV

There are exactly four things I control on away game days. My warmup. My playlist. My seat on the bus. My headspace.

That's it. That's the whole list. Everything else, the refs, the crowd, the weather, and whether Jax decides to be a functioning human being or a walking chaos, I let go. Coach spent three months in my sophomore year drilling that into me and I'd built my entire game-day routine around it.

Four things. That's all and Elena Voss was currently dismantling all four of the
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