JASPER'S POV I gripped my hockey stick tightly, taping the handle while sitting on the wooden bench inside the locker room. My muscles ached from head to toe, and my mind felt completely fried. The tape was going on crooked. I ripped it off and started again, winding it tighter this time, focusing on the small, mechanical motion because it was one of the only things I could control right now. Between hockey, family responsibilities, protecting Aria, and the growing mystery surrounding her past, it felt like there weren't enough hours in the day. Every time I thought things were finally calming down, something new happened. One minute we were celebrating a championship win, and the next Cole was finding altered birth registries, Zane was digging into international syndicates, and Aria was being followed by strange men outside campus. My brain felt like a browser with too many tabs open, each one loading something worse than the last. The only thing keeping me sane was hockey. Wh
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