All Chapters of FORBIDDEN ICE: CLAIMING THE CAPTAIN'S SISTER: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

CHAPTER 52DEVILS WEAR JERSEYS TOOROWAN Pain doesn’t arrive gently, it crushes as hard as it can. Pain has different levels, different styles to drain you mentally. And the type of pain I felt right now, was not something I'd experienced before. I groaned as my body hit the ice, the sound tearing out of my chest before I could stop it. My knee screamed—no, howled—like something inside it had snapped and was now punishing me for daring to move. The rink lights blurred above me, everything now annoying too bright and too light.The crowd noise didn’t fade like it was supposed to. It grew instead as it grated on my nerves, loud and ugly, like someone was drilling straight into my skull. “Ah—fuck—!” I hissed, trying to shift while also trying to breathe through it. Bad idea.White-hot pain tore through my leg and I cried out, fist slamming against the ice. I could feel my heartbeat in my knee, each pulse thumping with a fresh wave of agony.“Rowan! Oh my God! Are you hurt?!”I didn’t

CHAPTER 54A CRACK AWAY FROM A FUTURE ROWANYou know that feeling of going to a doctor's appointment when you've had unprotected sex and you're having STI symptoms? That was exactly the feeling that day comfortably in my chest as I watched the doctor's face. I watched the doctor’s face change from bad to worse. There was no gasp or sudden stillness, just a subtle tightening around his eyes and the way his mouth flattened as he stared at the scan like it had personally offended him.The knot in my stomach grew tighter. The room smelled like antiseptic and bad news. The fluorescent lights were too bright, lighting brightly, like they were mocking me for paying attention to something so stupid when my entire life was quietly rearranging itself.Coach was the only one in the room with me. He stood near the foot of the bed with his arms crossed and a tight jaw. He’d been quiet since we got here, and that alone told me this wasn’t good.“So?” Coach asked, breaking the silence. “How bad i

CHAPTER 56BROKEN FEAR ISLAI stared at the wall, long after Asher had walked out of the room. I stared at it like it had personally offended me, my thoughts nowhere near whatever colour or grain of sand was hanging from the wall. Rowan’s face kept replaying in my head as I imagined what he looked like or how he was feeling. And in between, I couldn't help but think about the way he’d looked at me like I was both relief and disaster wrapped in one.I grabbed my phone without thinking and dialed Noah's ontact. If Asher wasn't going to tell me anything, Noah and Ellis would happily give up any information as long as it involved me.He picked up on the second ring. “Hey—”“What happened to Rowan?” I blurted out before he got the chance to finish speaking. There was a short pause heaving enough to make my heart tighten. Is he faring that badly?“Who told you?” he asked.“So something did happen,” I said quickly. “Noah, please, just tell me what happened. I'm dying from worry.”He exha

CHAPTER 58THE WEIGHT OF TRUTHISLAYou know the feeling you get when you wished for the whole world to stop and give you a break? I was there right now. The room was colder than it needed to be. Not cold in temperature, but cold in presence. The kind of cold that seeps into your bones because everyone in the room is looking at you like you’re already guilty and just wasting their time by breathing.I stood in front of the panel table with my hands clasped so tightly together my fingers were beginning to ache. Three people sat across from me. Two men and a woman. There were files in front of them, my name printed on the white paper like I was a test subject. “Sit down, Miss Isla North,” the woman in the middle said, her tone clipped but not unkind.At least there's a woman, maybe she'll have the sympathy of a mother. I sat, my chair scraping against the floor, the sound echoing far louder than it should have. The man on the left adjusted his glasses and flipped open a file. “You a

CHAPTER 60ONE STEP OF PAIN AT A TIMEROWANOh well, maybe this is the beginning of something I'll resent for the rest of my life. The room felt smaller after the doctor left. It didn't mean physically, but something pressed in on my chest, something heavy and sour that felt too much like humiliation settling into my bones.The machines kept humming beside me, steady and uncaring, as if my body wasn’t currently betraying me in the most personal way possible.They added still here, Noah, Asher and Ellis. All three of them were still in the room with me. I could sense them without even bothering to look. Their presence felt like weight at the edge of the bed. It was so clear that they were trying so hard to act normal, to pretend that my legs didn't just give up on me and Victor didn't almost ruin my life. That's if he hasn't. Now he's targeting Asher and they didn't look like they were trying to do anything about it. And that pissed me off and made me wish I had cracked open his sku