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Chapter 47: We Left The Hate Behind
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2026-05-20 18:10:20
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NOAH'S POVThe hospital room smelled like antiseptic and exhaustion. The only light came from a small lamp on the side table and the faint blue glow of monitors tracking every heartbeat and breath of Noah. Ethan had finally fallen into a restless sleep after another round of pain meds, his face pale against the white pillow. His injured leg was elevated, wrapped heavily, looking foreign and wrong on the guy who had always moved like the court belonged to him.I hadn’t left. I couldn’t.Hours had blurred together since they brought him up from the ER. Coaches had come and gone. Teammates had texted nonstop. But I stayed planted in the stiff chair beside his bed, elbows on my knees, hands clasped so tight my knuckles ached. Every time Ethan shifted or winced in his sleep, something sharp twisted in my chest. Ethan had been my brother for years. He was the real brother I never had. He saw me in my best and worst days, been there for me in my darkness and abuse. The one who called me out
The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 47: We Left The Hate Behind
ELENA’S POVThe crack was unmistakable.Ethan went down near the three-point line, his body folding unnaturally as his knee gave out beneath him. For one terrifying heartbeat, the entire world stopped spinning.Then I was running.I didn’t feel my feet moving. I didn’t remember dropping my notebook or vaulting over the sideline barrier. One second I was standing on the bleachers watching practice, and the next I was sliding across the polished hardwood on my knees, right beside my brother.“Ethan,” I breathed, my voice breaking. My hands hovered uselessly over him, afraid to touch, afraid not to. His face was twisted in pure agony, teeth gritted so tightly I could see the strain in his jaw. Sweat poured down his temples, mixing with the sheen already covering his skin from practice.“My knee,” he gasped. “Fuck Elena, it’s bad. It’s really bad.”I could see it — the unnatural angle and the swelling already blooming fast and angry under his skin. My stomach plummeted. This wasn’t someth
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NOAH'S POVThe game had ended nearly two hours ago, but Elena had stayed behind for her so-called “interview.” My muscles burned from the brutal session, but that was nothing compared to the storm raging inside my chest.Her brother had cornered me again right after showers. Got in my face with that protective big-brother shit, warning me to stay the hell away from Elena if I knew what was good for me. Like I was some kind of threat. Like I hadn’t spent the last three years trying to forget her.And yet here we were.Elena stood a few feet away, arms crossed, recorder gripped tight like a weapon. Her eyes were steel, daring me to keep dodging her questions.“You keep saying the past is dead, Noah, but you flinch every time I bring it up,” she pressed. “Why? What are you so scared I’ll find out?”“Drop it, Elena. I’m not doing this tonight.”“No.” She stepped closer, chin lifted in that stubborn way that always set me off. “You’ve been punishing me for three years for something I didn’
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