All Chapters of My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Ember's POVTonight was supposed to be the best night of my life.I stood in front of the bathroom mirror and carefully lined my lips, taking my time the way I never usually did. I was the kind of girl who rushed through getting ready because there was always something more important waiting — a lecture to read, an assignment to finish, a test to study for. But not tonight. Tonight I took my time because tonight was different.Tonight, Ethan was going to tell the whole world we were together.For six whole months, I had been his secret. We talked on the phone late at night when nobody could hear. We met in hallways where the popular crowd never hung around. We sat at different ends of the cafeteria and pretended not to know each other. Six months of being invisible, of being the girl he was too embarrassed to be seen with in public. And I had accepted all of it because I loved him, and I believed him every single time he told me he was going to make things right.Tonight was supposed

Ember's POV I woke up in the middle of the night and for about three seconds, I didn't know where I was. Then it all came back. The party. Ethan. The key. Knox's apartment and the trophies on every shelf and the way he had looked at me when I told him I had never done this before — not with pity, not with impatience, but with something that looked almost like care. Knox had kept every single promise he made. I lay still and stared at the ceiling and let myself sit with that for a moment. I had been so afraid it was going to be a disaster and I was going to regret it the second it was over. But lying there in the quiet of his room, with the sheet pulled up around me and the city making its soft nighttime sounds outside the window, I didn't feel any of the things I had prepared myself to feel. I felt okay. I actually felt okay. Maybe even a little more than okay. I smiled at the ceiling in the dark like an idiot, and then I turned over to look at Knox. He wasn't there. The bed

Ember's POVAfter Knox left, the three of us stood in the room and Jessica was going on about the way he had supposedly been looking at her, and Kimberly was shaking her head saying no, she had watched the whole thing and Knox had barely taken his eyes off me for a second, and I was standing there listening to all of it while a completely different conversation was happening inside my head. "So what do you think?" Kimberly was looking at me with that expression she used when she had already made up her mind and was just waiting for you to catch up. "I think Knox Rivers has a crush on you." "Knox is a player," I said. "He changes girls like he changes his clothes. He is not my type." "Knox may be a player," Jessica said, looking genuinely offended on his behalf, "but he is literally everybody's type. Nobody is immune to Knox Rivers. That is just a fact." "Can we just go to the game?" I said. "I want to sit down and drink something cold and not think about anything for a few hours."