Chapter 93: CollapseThe home game against a conference rival was supposed to be a statement win.Instead, it became the moment everything nearly unraveled.The arena was packed, the crowd loud and expectant after the recent headlines and the upcoming public announcement. Cameras were everywhere — league broadcasters, fan phones, the syndicate’s hidden feeds. The pressure was suffocating.Callan and I had barely slept. The shared dreams the night before had been particularly vivid — a life without surveillance, without the one-month (now five-day) deadline, without my father’s shadow. Waking up in the monitored apartment had left us both raw.The link was unstable from the latest dose.During warm-ups, every brush of Callan’s presence sent sparks through me. By the first period, the bleed was uncontrollable.A hard hit on Callan in the corner sent a wave of pain and possessive heat through the link. My glove twitched. I
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