Semua Bab LOVING MR HOCKEY STAR: Bab 241 - Bab 250

Maya's POV Pain. That was the first thing I became aware of as consciousness dragged me up from the darkness. Not regular pain, this was fire spreading through my veins, burning from the inside out. Silver poisoning. I tried to open my eyes, but even that small movement sent agony shooting through my body. I gasped, and immediately two voices called my name. "Maya!" "She's waking up." Jaxon and Lucien. Both here. I forced my eyes open and found them sitting on either side of the couch where I lay, their faces etched with worry. "How long?" My voice came out as a raspy whisper. "Six hours," Jaxon said, gently pressing a cool cloth to my forehead. "The silver poisoning is fighting your natural healing. Your body is winning, but it's slow." "Hurts," I managed. "I know." Lucien held a glass of water to my lips. "Small sips. Your body needs fluids to flush the silver from your system." I drank, the cool water feeling like heaven against my throat. When I finished, I looked aroun

Lucien's POV Maya finally fell into a restless sleep around 3 AM, her body still fighting the silver poisoning. I sat in the corner of the safe house, watching her chest rise and fall, when my phone buzzed with a notification that made my blood run cold. A message from the vampire council. Encrypted, untraceable, and absolutely deadly. I stepped outside into the predawn darkness, not wanting to wake Maya or alert Jaxon. My hands shook as I opened the message. Lucien Nightshade, We have reviewed the viral footage of Maya Cross displaying supernatural abilities in public. Your report claiming her powers were "dormant and unthreatening" has been revealed as a deliberate lie. You have betrayed your kind for a human girl. This is treason of the highest order. Elite Enforcer Viktor Draven has been dispatched to Blackstone University. He will arrive in 72 hours. His orders are to eliminate the White Luna threat and execute you for your betrayal. You have one chance at redemption: Comp

Maya's POV I lay on the couch with my back to them, trying to process everything I'd just learned. Lucien had been sent to kill me. The vampire I'd trusted with my deepest fears, my awakening powers, my vulnerability, he'd come here with orders to eliminate me. And he'd lied about it. For weeks. My chest felt tight, like I couldn't get enough air. The silver burns on my arms throbbed in time with my heartbeat, but that pain was nothing compared to the ache in my chest. I'd been so stupid. Again. First Ashen and Lyra. Then the whole mess with Victoria. And now Lucien. Why did I keep trusting people who betrayed me? "Maya." Jaxon's voice was soft, concerned. "You should try to rest. Your body needs—" "I'm fine," I said, even though I wasn't. I felt it building inside me, a pressure behind my ribcage that had nothing to do with breathing and everything to do with power. The same power that had manifested at the party when Camila threw that drink. The same power that had glowed silv

Ronan's POV I'd been staring at my laptop screen for six hours straight, following digital breadcrumbs that led deeper and deeper into something far more sinister than I'd imagined. It started with a simple search: who were the hunters that had attacked Maya? The answer should have been straightforward. The Order of the Silver Dawn was a known entity in supernatural circles, an ancient organization of hunters who'd been tracking and eliminating supernatural threats for centuries. But these particular hunters were different. Their weapons were too advanced, too specifically designed. Their intelligence was too accurate. And most damning of all, they'd known exactly where Maya would be and when. Someone had told them. I dug deeper, hacking into dark web forums where supernatural hunters congregated. It took me three hours and several questionable uses of Dr. Elizabeth Thorne's Department of Supernatural Affairs access codes, but I finally found what I was looking for. A post from a

Isabella's POV I'd been staring at the same ten seconds of video for three hours, frame by frame, and something wasn't right. The viral video of Maya catching that cup at the Kappa Sigma party, the one that had exploded across social media and put her life in danger, had been viewed over seven million times now. Most people thought it was fake. Some thought it was real. But nobody had questioned where it came from or who posted it first. Nobody except me. I was a journalism major. Investigating sources was literally what I did. And the more I looked at this video, the more things didn't add up. The original post came from an account called "SupernaturalTruth47"..a burner account created the same day as the party. The account had no other posts, no followers before the video, and used a VPN to mask its location. Whoever posted this wanted to stay anonymous. But why? I downloaded the video file and opened it in editing software, examining the metadata. That's when I found the first