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Chapter 25 — Rivals Make the Worst Witnesses 

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last update Veröffentlichungsdatum: 14.04.2026 14:05:22

Lucian POV

I know something is wrong before I even see him. It starts the moment we step into the ballroom, the air is different, too warm and too crowded and too full of scent. Alphas, too many of them in one place.

The pre-season event is supposed to be simple: press, sponsors, introductions before the next round of games. Everyone dressed sharper than usual, voices smoother, smiles more controlled. I hate it immediately, not because of the noise but because of the attention. This kind of spa
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    Lucian POVI hear him before I see him.Not his voice, his silence. The specific quality of quiet that enters a space before a certain kind of person does. I am in the connecting corridor between the team area and the private suites, gear bag over one shoulder, heading nowhere urgent, when the air changes. Then the measured cadence of dress shoes on polished concrete, unhurried, precise, and I know without looking that whoever is walking toward Coach's office is not a league official or a sponsor representative.I stop near the equipment alcove and do not announce myself.The door opens before the knock.That tells me Orion knew he was coming. The greeting that follows is controlled, minimal, the register Orion uses when he is managing something he did not choose to invite. I have learned that register over months of close quarters. It is different from his authoritative voice, different from the tone he uses with me. Flatter. More careful. Like a man who learned very young that cer

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    Orion POVKeller figures it out on a Wednesday.I know the exact moment. He's at his stall, tape in hand, mid-conversation with Petrov about something inconsequential. Then Lucian walks in from the hall, gear bag over one shoulder, eyes down. Keller pauses, half a second, no more, then finishes his sentence and goes back to his tape. But his eyes follow Lucian to his locker, and when a second-string defenseman leans over and says something low near Lucian's space, Keller walks across the room and inserts himself into that conversation so naturally that the defenseman doesn't register being redirected until he's already talking to someone else.Lucian doesn't look up from his gear.I file it away and say nothing.This is not the first time I have watched a team quietly reorganize itself around someone. It happened once before, in my second year, with a defenseman who had a drinking problem no one talked about and everyone accommodated without naming. The difference then was that everyo

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