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Chapter 55 — The Rival Returns
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Twin Aces: Claimed by the Alpha Captain (MM Romance) Chapter 55 — The Rival Returns
Orion POVIronclad was back on the schedule. The moment Coach Mercer pinned the updated game sheet to the board, the room shifted. Not loudly or dramatically, but enough. Conversations slowed, players stopped laughing, and someone cursed quietly near the lockers. Even the younger recruits straightened instinctively, shoulders tightening as if expecting blood on the ice tomorrow night. Ironclad had that effect. Not because they were unbeatable but because they played ugly. And because Dain Voss never forgot anything. I leaned against my locker, arms crossed, watching the team pretend they weren’t nervous while Coach spoke at the front. “Fast transitions,” Coach said, tapping the board sharply. “They pressure hard in the neutral zone. Dain’s line targets weak puck control, so if you hesitate—” “You get flattened,” Maddox muttered. Coach ignored him. “Keep possession tight. Don’t retaliate after hits. That’s exactly what they want.” Retaliation. No. Dain wanted something
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
Twin Aces: Claimed by the Alpha Captain (MM Romance) CHAPTER 53 - Orion Chooses
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 follows me.Not a distraction. I have already dealt with that one. I know how to carry it, how to set it down, how to remind myself that a word only has the weight you give it. I have been doing that since I was fourteen. It is not comfortable, but it is familiar. Familiar things can be managed.The second word is different.I was already past the alcove when it reached me. Already moving toward the stairwell, already building distance the way I always do when something gets too close. The door had opened again behind me, and Viktor's voice carried through the corridor with the same calibrated precision he uses for everything, like a man who has never once said something he did not intend.The risk calculus does not change because the attachment is genuine.I did not stop walking. I kept my pace exactly the same. I heard it, and I kept moving, and I have been thinking about it ever since.Not obsessively. Not in the way that makes your hands shake or your chest clos
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
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