All Chapters of In love with my Ex’s Rival:The Ice Hockey Rival: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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What happened out there

Tamara’s POVI made it back to campus by sneaking through the maintenance entrance. My clothes were still in the forest, torn to shreds. I’d found an old hoodie someone had left on a bench near the gym and wrapped it around myself, grateful that nobody was out.The dorm hallway was empty. I slipped into our room and made it exactly three steps before Elena looked up from her phone.“Oh my God,” she said.Then she took in my appearance….the dirt under my fingernails, the leaves in my hair, the way I was moving like my body didn’t quite belong to me anymore.She stood up slowly.“Tamara.”“I’m fine,” I said automatically.“You’re not. Don’t do that thing where you lie to me.” She crossed the room and grabbed my shoulders, forcing me to meet her eyes. “What happened? Why are you covered in dirt? Why do you look like you’ve seen a ghost?”“I fell,” I said. “On the path. It was muddy….”“You’re a terrible liar. You know that, right?” She pushed me toward the bathroom. “Shower. Now. And the

Last Updated : 2026-07-06

Almost told him

Tamara’s POVI didn’t sleep.I’d lain in the dark staring at the text message until the words stopped making sense. I know what you are. And I’m coming for it. It played on repeat in my mind, each iteration making my stomach twist tighter.Elena had been right. I needed to tell Garrett. I needed to tell someone who could actually do something about a threat like this. But as morning came and I dragged myself to Professor Bondo’s lecture, I kept finding reasons not to.He was already dealing with a lot. How could I add more to that? How could I make his situation worse by telling him that his girlfriend was some kind of creature that people wanted to hunt?I was halfway across campus when I heard his voice.“Tamara.”Garrett was leaning against the side of the science building like he’d been waiting. Which he probably had been. His grey eyes were sharp, assessing, like he could already tell something was wrong.“Hi,” I said, my voice too high.“Where are you going?”“Class. Professor B

Last Updated : 2026-07-08

My instincts

Paul’s POVI’d been watching Tamara all semester.Not in a creepy way…..at least, that’s what I told myself. More like how a quarterback watches the field, reads the defense, anticipates where the play is going before it happens. And right now, every instinct I had was screaming that Tamara was about to break.I saw her leave the coffee shop with Garrett. Saw the way she moved like someone was holding her together with invisible threads. Saw how she kept looking over her shoulder like she expected something to jump out of the shadows.On Saturday, I texted her to see if she wanted to grab lunch. No response. Sunday, I sent her a meme that would normally make her laugh….the one with the confused cat. Still nothing. By Monday morning, I was concerned enough to seek her out.I found her in the library, sitting at her usual table with her textbooks spread out, but she wasn’t reading. She was staring at her phone like it might bite her.I called her first. I watched her phone light up in

Last Updated : 2026-07-09

The Bargain

Mara’s POVThe shack shouldn’t have existed.That was my first thought when I found it at the edge of pack territory, where the forest turned sick and the trees looked like they were dying from the inside out. The water in the pond was black. The air smelled like rot and copper and things I didn’t want to name.I’d brought offerings. Money. Blood from a sacrifice I’d made myself. My own hair bound with silver thread.If the witch wanted tokens, I would give her tokens.Eldra was waiting inside like she’d known exactly when I would arrive.She was worse than I expected. Grey-skinned. Eyes like cracked amber. Hands with nails that looked like they’d been forged from shadow. She wore tattered clothes that might have been silk a century ago, and when she smiled, I realized she didn’t have all her teeth.“Mara Rivers,” she said, her voice like gravel and wind. “You didn’t come all this way to waste my time with pleasantries.”“I need a bargain,” I said, keeping my voice steady.“Everyone

Last Updated : 2026-07-10

Before the game

Tamara’s POV“You’re going to throw up,” Elena said, watching me pace the dorm room for the hundredth time.“I’m not going to throw up.”“Your face is green. That’s the color of someone who is about to throw up.”I stopped pacing and pressed my palm against the window. The campus was already filled with people heading to the arena. The championship preliminaries were tonight. Garrett would play. Lucas would play. And I would sit in the bleachers trying not to have a complete breakdown about the power thrumming through my veins and the threat that Mara had made.“I shouldn’t go,” I said.“Excuse me?”“I shouldn’t go to the game. It’s not safe. If something happens….”“Nothing’s going to happen,” Elena said, grabbing my shoulders and turning me to face her. “You’re going to sit in the bleachers. You’re going to watch your ice king play hockey. You’re going to smile. And then you’re going to come home and tell me what the hell is actually going on in your life.”“Elena…..”“I’m serious,

Last Updated : 2026-07-11

He deserved it

Lucas's POVI saw it happen.That moment in the third period when Garrett looked up into the bleachers and found her. The way his entire body shifted, like she was gravity and he was orbiting around her. The way his eyes softened for just a fraction of a second before the mask came back down.And I felt something snap inside me.I've been trying. God, I'd been trying so hard to accept that she was his. That I'd lost her. That I deserved to lose her because of what I'd done. But watching him look at her like she was the only thing that mattered in the entire world, watching him play better because she was watching…..I couldn't take it anymore.The puck was in my possession. Three minutes left in the game. Crestwood down by one. This was supposed to be our moment. Garrett's and mine. Two alphas playing together, showing the other packs what we were capable of.But all I could think about was Tamara in the bleachers.Garrett cut across center ice to receive a pass. He wasn't expecting w

Last Updated : 2026-07-12

The Bind

Lucas’s POVMara stood in the doorway of the locker room like she owned it.She was still wearing her game day outfit….a green dress that matched her contact lenses perfectly, her blonde hair styled in waves that took hours to create, her makeup flawless despite the emotional roller coaster of the game. She looked like a girl who’d been preparing for this exact moment all week. Like she’d been waiting for me to break so she could catch the pieces.“Well,” she said, stepping inside and closing the door behind her with a soft click. “That was quite the performance.”“What are you doing here?” I asked, not bothering to hide my irritation. “This is the men’s locker room.”“I could ask you the same thing.” She moved closer, her eyes sharp and calculating in a way that made my skin crawl. “I watched the game, Lucas. I watched you play perfectly for two and a half periods. You were magnificent. And then I watched you throw it all away like it meant nothing.”“I don’t know what you’re talking

Last Updated : 2026-07-13

Fractured

Garrett’s POVThe pain was a constant throb.I lay on the examination table in the school clinic, shirtless while Dr. Morrison pressed his fingers carefully against my ribs. Each touch sent a jolt of white-hot agony through my chest, but I didn’t flinch. Didn’t make a sound. That was the difference between me and Lucas.He let his pain out. Let it consume him. Let it make him do stupid things.I kept mine buried so deep that nobody could use it against me.“Two ribs are definitely bruised,” Dr. Morrison said, moving his hands away. “Possibly one minor fracture, but I can’t be certain without an X-ray. You should go to the hospital…”“I’m not going to the hospital,” I said flatly.“Garrett…”“I said no.”He sighed. Dr. Morrison had been the pack physician for fifteen years. He knew better than to argue with an alpha about medical care.“At minimum, you need rest,” he said, moving to gather supplies for wrapping my ribs. “No hockey for at least two weeks. No physical contact. No sparrin

Last Updated : 2026-07-14

The threat

Tamara’s POVI left the clinic with my heart still racing.I’d almost told Garrett. The words had been right there on my tongue, ready to spill out. “I’m the Eclipse Wolf. There’s a prophecy. The council wants me dead.” All of it.But then I’d looked at him, wrapped in that medical tape because of Lucas, already hurting, already in danger just by being near me, and the words had died.How could I tell him when he was already suffering? How could I add one more impossible thing to his plate when he was already dealing with Lucas’s jealousy and the council hearing and his fractured ribs?So instead, I’d kissed him and let him think I was just scared about vague future threats. I’d let him comfort me while keeping the biggest secret of all locked inside my chest.I was so caught up in that feeling that I almost didn’t notice Mara waiting for me by the science building.She was leaning against the brick wall, her blonde hair catching the late afternoon sunlight, her green contacts gleamin

Last Updated : 2026-07-15

Pushing away

Tamara’s POVBy the time morning light started filtering through the blinds, I’d made my decision.Nobody else could know. Nobody else could be involved. The safer I kept them in the dark, the safer they actually were.Elena woke up around eight, stretching and yawning like she didn’t have a care in the world. For a moment, I envied her that ignorance. Then she sat up and looked at me.“You didn’t sleep,” she said. Not a question.“I slept fine.”“You’re lying. You have that look.” She moved to sit on the edge of my bed. “Okay, what’s going on? You were weird yesterday. You came home looking like someone had scared you half to death. And then you wouldn’t talk to me about it.”I turned away from her.“Nothing’s going on.”“Tamara…”“Elena, I said nothing’s going on.” I kept my voice flat, emotionless. “I’m fine. I’m just stressed about midterms.”“You’re a terrible liar,” she said, and I heard frustration creeping into her voice. “You know that, right? You’re absolutely awful at it. Y

Last Updated : 2026-07-16

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