All Chapters of A Chance With The Hockey Alpha Captain: Chapter 221 - Chapter 230

Jake's POVThat night I could not stop revisiting the scene in my memory.Selena was standing there quietly.Her books were like the only things anchoring her.The expression in her eyes when I referred to Sweden.I let the recollection replay as I leaned back on my bed and gazed up at the ceiling.I told myself she deserved it.She should have had to bear the fallout of her decisions.I had warned her. I had warned her from the beginning that Cullen was ambitious and that his goals stretched beyond this institution, beyond her.Love does not win over aspiration.And now he was no longer with her. Months had gone by already.He had traveled to Sweden. And he hadn't returned.I did not know what to do if that was not evidence.I sat up and ran my hand across my hair.“She picked wrong,” I murmured to myself.The words seemed firm and comforting. Like I had finally been vindicated.I began following the talk the next day. Not loudly at first.I shrugged as I did not care when a few peop

Jake’s POVWhat she did surprised me. I anticipated silence, crying or her walking away as she had for weeks.But I hadn't anticipated her turning and staring at me as she did.Something in me tightened as she started talking.She did not scream. She did not attack me. She talked as if she had come to terms already. And that made it worse.She said that not every woman is yearning to attach herself to the closest man.The words repeated themselves in my mind.I grinned back at that moment and chuckled a little.I could feel it, nevertheless. I sensed the change.The students close by, those who had laughed with me earlier, had become quiet.Their attitudes had changed. Their thirst had evolved into something else. Something like contemplation.My jaw clenched as she said she picked Cullen because she loved him, not because she needed rescue.She had spoken without hesitation. No shuddering.I couldn't permit that to stand. “She is merely emotional”, I said hastily. “Pregnancy hormones

Selena’s POVElias was born a few months later.Everything changed subtly the day he came into my life.Not wildly. Not in a manner that eradicated my history. But in a manner that anchored me differently.Motherhood did not go perfectly. It came with sleepless nights, mild cries in the darkness, and the rhythmic studying of another person's needs before my own. Initially, every little action had me uncertain. I counted how many times his chest rose and fell more than I could count. I woke up merely to gaze at him even if he was not crying.But little by little, I got used to it. His body weight. The way his little fingers curled around mine. The little noises he made as he was ready to awaken.I discovered how to support him easily on my hip. I discovered how to navigate around areas while shielding him without giving it too much thought. My body made adjustments. My thinking changed. Still, somehow life continued.One of my favorite people invited me to a hockey game that afternoon.

Selena’s POVI did not expect him to ask the question the way he did.When Cullen looked at me and said, “Is he mine?” his voice was low, almost careful. It was not demanding. It was not angry. There was something else in it.Fear.For a moment, I could not speak. My throat tightened, and all the months of silence between us rushed back at once. The nights I had waited for his call. The mornings I woke up and reminded myself that he had chosen to leave. The confusion. The hurt. The pride that stopped me from trying again.Everything pressed against my chest at the same time.I looked at him properly then.I expected to see anger. I expected an accusation. I expected him to look distant.He did not.He looked nervous.That surprised me more than the question itself.My heart was beating so loudly that I could feel it in my ears. Elias shifted slightly in my arms, and I adjusted the blanket around him, mostly to steady myself.Cullen did not look away. He was waiting.I swallowed and no

Selena’s POVI stayed quiet after telling him how lonely it had been.Cullen did not argue with me. He did not defend himself immediately. He just stood there, looking at me in a way that told me he was thinking carefully about what to say next.When he finally spoke, his voice sounded emotional, but it was steady.“I stayed because of you,” he said.I frowned slightly, not fully understanding.“I didn’t stay by accident,” he continued. “I stayed because I wanted to prove something.”“Prove what?” I asked.“That you were more important than any dream I had,” he replied.The words made my heart beat faster, but I forced myself to listen without interrupting.“That offer in Sweden,” he said, “it was something I worked toward for years. Everyone expected me to take it. My family. My teammates. Even my coach.”I watched his face as he spoke. He wasn’t looking at the ice anymore. He was looking at me.“But when we fought that night,” he continued, “I realized I didn’t want a dream that cos