All Chapters of In love with my Ex’s Rival:The Ice Hockey Rival: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

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The challenge

Lucas's POVI watched Tamara stand there in the center of the arena, surrounded by the people who loved her. Elena hugging her. Her father holding them both. Paul standing nearby. And Garrett... Garrett able to stand openly with her now, able to claim her without breaking pack law.She was free. She was his, but she wasn't his, and she never would be.The Council was preparing to leave. The judgment was complete. People were standing, beginning to gather, preparing to exit the arena. This was over. The investigation was finished. Justice had been served, incomplete as it was, and the supernatural world would move on.But I couldn't move on.I couldn't accept that I had lost her. That I had thrown away my position, my authority, my entire future in the Ashford Pack, and it still wasn't enough to keep her. That I had sabotaged the tournament, manipulated everyone around me, lied to her face, and none of it had changed the outcome.

Last Updated : 2026-09-05

They won’t listen

Tamara’s POVNo.The word formed in my mind before I could even process what was happening. No, this wasn’t happening. This couldn’t be happening. I had been free just moments ago. The judgment was complete. I had been granted permission to be with Garrett, to have a future without fear or exile, and now….. Lucas was invoking ancient law.The room was still buzzing with the shock of it, the collective gasp of the supernatural community processing what blood and fang meant. But I understood immediately. I had learned enough in these past weeks to know that once blood and fang was invoked, there was no stopping it. No Council override. No negotiation just combat and exile.I pushed through the crowd toward Garrett, my heart pounding in my chest.“Garrett, no,” I said, reaching for him, for his arm, for anything to stop this from happening. “Stop this. You don’t have to accept this challenge. The judgment is already decided. I’m fr

Last Updated : 2026-09-06

The arena floor

Tamara’s POVThe sun was setting over the arena, painting the sky in shades of gold and deep crimson.Sunset came faster than I could possibly process or prepare for emotionally. One moment I was being held back by Elena in the crowd, the next the arena was being cleared completely, special barriers erected at the perimeter, the formal space sanctified and prepared for blood and fang. The crowd had assembled in perfect silence thousands of people, all waiting to witness what would happen when ancient law was invoked and accepted by both parties.I stood with Elena and my father, and I couldn’t breathe at all. Lucas and Garrett stood on opposite sides of the arena, separated by distance and intention. The crowd fell completely silent. Not a whisper just the sound of wind and my own heartbeat, thundering in my ears.Then they began to shift without hesitation or delay.I had seen Garrett shift before. I knew the controll

Last Updated : 2026-09-06

Choosing myself over everything

Tamara's POVI couldn't watch them collide one more time.I couldn't watch one of them fall. I couldn't watch someone lose everything while I stood there helpless. I couldn't accept that my future was being decided by violence and ancient law and two wolves too proud or too desperate to do anything else.Not anymore.I stepped forward.Elena tried to hold me back, her grip tightening on my hand, but I pulled away. I didn't step into the arena as a spectator or a prize. I stepped into my power.My eyes turned silver.The change was instant and complete. I felt the Eclipse Wolf rise inside me, felt her recognize what I was doing, felt her approval. The bond that connected me to the supernatural world, the Eclipse Bond….snapped tight like a cord, and suddenly I could feel everything. Every pack, every council member, every person watching.My power demanded to be acknowledged.I walked forward, and my bod

Last Updated : 2026-09-07

Letting her go

Lucas's POVI found her in the empty field behind campus, the same place where everything had started falling apart weeks ago. She was standing alone, staring at nothing, still wearing the clothes she'd been wearing when she walked between us and ended everything.I stood at the edge of the field for a long time, just watching her.I didn't know what I was going to say. I didn't know if I had the right to say anything at all. But I knew I couldn't leave without speaking, without giving her the truth I should have given her from the beginning."Tamara," I said quietly.She didn't turn around. She just stood there, perfectly still, waiting for whatever this was.I walked across the field slowly, deliberately, making sure she knew I was coming. Making sure there was nothing threatening in my approach. For the first time in this entire situation, I was going to be honest. I was going to give her something real instead of manipulation

Last Updated : 2026-09-07

I will wait

Garrett's POVI saw Lucas walking away from the field before I saw Tamara standing alone in the center of it.I had given them time……an hour, maybe more…..before I came looking for her. I knew Lucas needed to say something. I knew whatever he said would matter, because he had loved her in his own broken way, and she deserved to hear the truth from him.But now it was my turn.I approached slowly, the same way Lucas must have, giving her space, making sure she knew I was coming. She was holding something……a blanket or a box wrapped in fabric but she didn't look up when I stopped a few feet away from her."Garrett," she said, and her voice was tired in a way I'd never heard before."I'm sorry," I said immediately, because there was no point in waiting or preparing. "I'm sorry for the duel. I'm sorry for invoking ancient law. I'm sorry for thinking that proving myself through violence was the same as proving myself through love."

Last Updated : 2026-09-08

Her happiness matters to me

Paul’s POVI knew by the time I got to the field that both Lucas and Garrett had already been there and left.I could see it clearly in the way Tamara’s entire energy had shifted between then and now. She was sitting now instead of standing, cross-legged in the grass, holding something carefully wrapped in fabric. Her face was tired and her eyes were red from crying, but there was something fundamentally different about her posture. Something settled and grounded. Like she had finally stopped waiting for something to happen and had accepted that she was the one who made things happen.I had been waiting outside her dorm room when she left the arena this afternoon. I had watched her walk out completely alone into the chaos. I had watched Elena and her father embrace her with love and relief. I had seen Garrett arrive not long after Lucas had left the field, and I had given them all the space they needed because I knew they needed to talk

Last Updated : 2026-09-08

The choice has been made

Tamara's POVThe field was completely silent after Paul left.I sat alone with the coffee cup warming my hands and my father's blanket spread across my lap. The sun was almost gone now, the sky turning deep purple and orange at the edges. Campus felt far away. The arena felt like it belonged to someone else's story, not mine.For the first time in weeks…..maybe months I was truly alone. Not claimed or protected or pursued. Just me, sitting in an empty field with the weight of everything that had happened finally settling on my shoulders where it belonged.I lifted the blanket carefully and read my father's note again, even though I had already read it three times.My daughter,You should not hide anymore. Your power is not something to fear. It is something to honor. I spent twenty years protecting you from a world that didn't understand what you were. But you understand now. You have always understood. I'm sorry it took me so long to see that.Mom would be proud of you. I am proud o

Last Updated : 2026-09-09

Standing alone

Tamara's POVElena was already sitting at our usual table when I arrived at the coffee shop, two cups steaming in front of her……one hazelnut latte for me, one black coffee for her.She had always known my order too. The difference was that Elena had made me think about what I wanted, whereas Paul had simply remembered. Elena pushed, questioned, and demanded honesty. Paul had given space.Both were forms of love, but they expressed themselves so differently."You're moving out," Elena said before I even sat down. Not a question. A statement.I stopped mid-sit. "How did you…..""Because I know you," she said, and there was no judgment in her voice, just absolute certainty. "You went into that field last night as someone who had been claimed and defined by everyone around you. You're coming back from that field as someone who needs to be completely alone. So you're moving out."I sat down slowly, impressed as always by her ability to read me."I found a place," I admitted. "Small apartme

Last Updated : 2026-09-09

The first night alone

Tamara's POVThe apartment was small…..a one-bedroom with hardwood floors and a kitchen barely big enough for two people to stand in at once. But it was mine. Every corner of it, every wall, every inch belonged to me and no one else.My father carried in the last box from his car, setting it down in the living room with a small grunt of effort."You're sure about this?" he asked, like he had asked three times already since I called him this morning asking for help."I'm sure," I said, and I meant it.We had spent the afternoon unpacking. He had helped me assemble the bed I had bought…..nothing fancy, just a frame and a mattress and soft sheets. He had helped me organize the kitchen, pointing out that I had somehow acquired more coffee mugs than any one person could reasonably use."Your mother had the same problem," he said, unwrapping one particularly ugly ceramic mug painted with what looked like a melting cat. "She couldn't pass a thrift store without coming out with a new mug.""T

Last Updated : 2026-09-10

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