All Chapters of Skating Into Sin: Fake Dating My Hockey Bully: Chapter 1 - Chapter 7

The acceptance email had been sitting in my inbox for exactly twelve minutes and thirty-seven seconds.Not that I was counting.My hands shook so badly I nearly dropped my phone while crossing the crowded university courtyard. One word stared back at me.Congratulations.It had taken two years of countless applications, rejection letters, and several attempts to give up to earn that single word.I hadn’t just been accepted. I was offered a fully funded admission into my dream school, Northbridge University.Everyone knew how impossible that was. Northbridge was wildly popular, with one of the most competitive admission rates in the country. They only offered a single fully funded scholarship each year out of thousands of applications. Everyone else fought for partial scholarships at best. Getting the full ride—tuition, housing, books, everything felt like winning the lottery. I should have felt victorious.Instead, I felt like I was one wrong move away from losing it all.Which was wh

The silence after the slap was deafening.For one heartbeat, the entire student lounge seemed to freeze. Then chaos erupted.Gasps turned into murmurs. Phones stayed raised, lenses pointed straight at us like weapons. Someone whispered, “Did she just slap the captain?” Another voice laughed nervously. My palm stung, but it was nothing compared to the pounding in my chest.Asher slowly turned his head back toward me. A red mark bloomed across his cheek. His cold gray eyes locked onto mine, no longer amused. Something darker flickered there — surprise mixed with raw anger.He stepped closer, towering over me, close enough that I caught that faint masculine scent again. The same one that had betrayed me moments earlier. My traitorous body noticed. My mind screamed at it to stop.“You just made a big mistake,” he murmured, for my ears only this time. “You really shouldn't have.”I grabbed my bag and pushed past him with a long hiss, ignoring the way my shoulder brushed his chest. The cont

Chapter 5: The HeroThe sick bay smelled like antiseptic and stale coffee. Asher carried me straight through the doors like some tragic hero from a romance movie, my wet clothes dripping all over the floor. The nurse on duty jumped up from her desk, eyes wide.“What happened?” she asked, rushing over.“She fell into the pool,” Asher said smoothly, voice laced with perfect concern. “She can’t swim. I managed to get her out just in time.” He gently laid me down on the examination bed, brushing wet strands of hair from my face in a gesture that looked tender to anyone watching.I wanted to scream.The nurse immediately checked my breathing and pulse. “She’s stable, but we’ll monitor her for a bit. You did the right thing bringing her here so quickly.”Asher nodded, playing the role flawlessly. “I’ll stay with her.”The nurse gave him a grateful smile and stepped out to grab some dry towels and forms, leaving us alone. He then stood up to use the restroom.He had barely left the room when

IvyI walked across campus clutching my bag like a lifeline, my steps slow and heavy. The meeting with the student adviser kept replaying in my head on an endless loop.The woman had been polite but firm, her expression unreadable as she reviewed the notes on her laptop.“The board is already reviewing your scholarship in light of the recent… incident,” she had said. “We’ll try to contain the situation, but only if the attention dies down quickly. Otherwise, you may have to forfeit the scholarship entirely.”She had paused, then added, “I’ll be in touch soon, Miss Hart.”Just like that. No “one more chance.” No warnings. Just the cold reality that everything I had fought for could be taken away.I thought back to the two years of endless applications, rejection letters, late nights filling out forms while Mom was in treatment, and the constant fear that someone like me didn’t deserve a shot at Northbridge. I had sacrificed so much to get here. And now, barely a week into the semester,