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Chapter 36 — Dain's Opening Move
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Twin Aces: Claimed by the Alpha Captain (MM Romance) Chapter 54 - The Whole Story
Lucian POVThe apartment is quiet. The only sound is the rain tapping against the windows. It is a sound. Not too loud. Just enough to fill the silence. It is midnight. The city outside is dark and blurry because of the rain and the distance. Orion is sitting across from me on the couch. He has one arm resting against the cushion. His shoulders are relaxed. This is not something I see often when he is around people.When Orion is around me, he becomes quieter. He is softer, but not weaker. He is more real. The lamp near the kitchen is casting a glow across the room. It is shining on the edges of his face, the line of his jaw and the scar near his eyebrow. These things make me feel safe.I am staring at the tea in my hands. It has gone cold. I have been holding it for a while."You have been holding that for twenty minutes." Orion's voice is quiet.I look down at the mug. I did not notice."I did not notice.""You did." Not accusing. Just truthful. This is the problem with Orion. He se
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Orion POVI wait until Lucian falls asleepNot because I need to hide it from him. He wouldn't stop me. I'm not doing anything behind his back. I wait because what I'm about to do is mine to handle. I don't want him watching me do it. I think about the line between protecting someone and making them see you protect them. This has been on my mind since the corridor. I remember when risk calculus was mentioned, and it felt like a verdict that Viktor didn't mean for both of us to hear.He's on his side, facing the wall. He's been breathing steadily. I sit on the edge of my bed in the dark with my phone in my hand. His scent is still in the room. Amber and something warmer underneath. This is the scent that means he's really okay, not just pretending to be. I have memorized this scent without trying. It makes something in my chest feel calm and certain.I dial Viktors number.Viktor answers on the ring. This means he was expecting my call. He usually answers on the ring. He thinks the fir
Twin Aces: Claimed by the Alpha Captain (MM Romance) CHAPTER 52 - What Lucian Heard
Lucian POVThe word stays with me. It is something I do not want to think about. It is still there.I had dealt with the word, the one that was meant to distract me.. The second word is the one that Viktor said a little while after I stopped listening and kept walking. I was already past the alcove and moving toward the stairwell when the door opened again, and Viktors' voice carried through the space. He said, "The risk calculus does not change because the attachment is genuine."I did not stop walking. I kept going at the pace. I heard what he said. I have been thinking about it since then.I am not thinking about it all the time and trying to figure out what it means. I just know it is there like something that cut me and left a scar.Risk calculus. That is what Viktor said. It is like the language of investment and loss. It is what a person uses when they look at someone and see a risk, something that could hurt them.The thing is, Viktor is not entirely wrong. That is what I am t
Twin Aces: Claimed by the Alpha Captain (MM Romance) CHAPTER 51 - Viktor Arrives
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
Twin Aces: Claimed by the Alpha Captain (MM Romance) Chapter 50 — Team Dynamics Shift
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
Twin Aces: Claimed by the Alpha Captain (MM Romance) CHAPTER 49 - The Morning He Doesn't Run
Lucian POVThe first thing I notice is the light.It comes through the curtain gap at a low angle, pale and unhurried, the kind that arrives before the city fully wakes. I have been awake for several minutes before I acknowledge it. The room is quiet. The air conditioner has cycled off. Everything is still in the specific way that early morning holds stillness, not peaceful exactly, but suspended.The second thing I notice is that I have not moved.This is unusual. My body has a pattern I built over the years, a sequence that begins the moment consciousness returns. Assess the space. Locate the exit. Identify what changed overnight and whether it requires management. It is not paranoia. It is infrastructure. The kind of habit that kept me invisible long enough to make it here.Most mornings, I am already sitting up before I have fully woken. Already calculating. Already building the distance I need before anyone else opens their eyes.This morning, I am lying on my side with one arm u
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