All Chapters of Contract Marriage with My Hockey Alpha: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

CHAPTER ONE — My Opponent Scarlett's POV This was the last game of the season and I kept telling myself not to think too much about it, but my mind wouldn’t stop going there no matter what, like it was stuck on a loop I couldn’t break out of.The last game meant everything or nothing for me, there was no middle ground, no soft landing, no “try again next season” like some of the other male players got when they failed. That kind of thing didn’t exist for girls in this league, people liked to pretend we were all equal on the ice but it wasn’t true, it had never been true.We trained in the same arenas, we wore the same gear, we followed the same rules, but when mistakes happened, it never landed the same way for us. One bad match and you were already “not worth it”, one weak performance and they stopped looking at you like an athlete and started looking at you like a mistake.And for me, it was worse than that.Because I wasn’t just playing for a contract., I was playing so I wouldn

CHAPTER THREE — Scarlett POVFor a moment, nobody moved.The silence in the hall after he said those words felt heavy, like the air itself had been pressed down on everyone’s shoulders.I could still feel the shock in my body and my stepmother was still holding my arm, but her grip had loosened slightly.Ryan Carter stood a few steps away from us, likenone of this was difficult for him.My stepmother was the first to recover, her face twisted with irritation as she looked at him properly for the first time.She did not look impressed, she did not look afraid either, she looked like she had been offended.“This is a family discussion,” she said sharply. “You are interfering where you do not belong.”Her voice carried across the hall, bouncing off the walls.People were still watching, still frozen in place, but she seemed to have forgotten they were there.Ryan did not react immediately.He simply looked at her with a calm observation, like he was trying to understand something that

CHAPTER FIVE — Scarlett POVI was asleep when my phone started ringing.At first, I didn’t want to open my eyes. My body felt too heavy, and my mind was still stuck in everything that had happened over the past few days. The ringing continued anyway, sharp and persistent, until I finally forced my eyes open.For a moment, I didn’t even recognize where I was.Then i remembered slowly. Ryan’s house. The contract and everything I reached for my phone and the name on the screen made me sit up immediately.Coach called me, My coach? My heart jumped, stared at it for a few seconds, almost afraid to breathe. Why was he calling me? After everything that happened… I thought I was done. I thought I had been completely removed.My fingers trembled as I answered. “Hello?”His voice came through immediately, firm and direct. “Come to the training hall. Now.”Then the call ended.I sat still, staring at the screen as my mind struggled to catch up. My heart had already started beating faster. Wh