chapter 1

I came home early because Daniel texted that he missed me.That was the only reason. Practice had ended thirty minutes ahead of schedule, Coach waved us off with a rare smile, and I still had sweat drying on the back of my neck when I pulled into the driveway. The porch light was on. Mom’s car sat in its usual spot. Daniel’s black truck was parked behind it, crooked, like he’d been in a hurry.I smiled. Stupid, soft little smile that still lived in my chest even after three years of dating him. I left my bag in the car and went inside without making a sound, already planning the way I’d sneak up behind him and press my cold hands to his stomach just to hear him swear.The house smelled like her perfume. The expensive one she only wore on special nights. It mixed with something warmer, heavier, and for a second I thought she must have cooked. Then I heard the sound.A low, broken moan. Male. Familiar.My hand froze on the banister.Another sound followed. Softer. Female. The kind of so

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chapter 2

The hostel room smelled like someone else’s life.Cheap detergent. Old carpet. The faint chemical sweetness of the air freshener the RA sprayed every Monday. I sat on the edge of the thin mattress with my phone face-down beside me and counted the missed calls until the numbers blurred. Twenty-three from Daniel. Fourteen from my mother. Three from an unknown number that I already knew belonged to her.I didn’t open a single message.My body still ached from the extra hours on the ice. Good. Pain was honest. Pain didn’t lie with its hands and its mouth and its soft little sounds in the dark. I pulled my knees up to my chest and stared at the crack in the plaster above the desk until my eyes burned.Somewhere down the hall a door slammed. Laughter floated past my door and faded. Normal girls living normal nights. I wondered if any of them had ever walked in on the two people who were supposed to love them most and felt the floor disappear.I stood up too fast. Blood rushed to my head and

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chapter 3

The next morning the sky looked like it had been scraped raw.I left the hostel while the corridors were still dark and the only sound was the low hum of the vending machines. My bag felt heavier than it should have. Everything did. Even the air. I walked the long route again, past the maintenance sheds and the empty visitor lot, because the shorter path still carried the shape of Daniel waiting for me.The rink lights were already on.I pushed through the side door and the cold hit me clean across the face. I welcomed it. Inside, the ice stretched out under the harsh white lights like something that had never been touched by lies. I laced my skates in the empty locker room, the only noise the soft creak of leather and the distant drip of melting snow from someone’s boots left near the heaters.When I stepped onto the ice I expected to be alone.I wasn’t.Damian was already there, moving through a set of tight figure-eights at the far end, stick handling a puck with the kind of precis

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chapter 4

The emergency lights along the boards threw long yellow stripes across the ice. Everything else was shadow. Damian stood three feet away and the air between us felt too thin.I should have left when he told me to. Every part of me that still understood danger said the same thing. Instead I stayed where I was, stick loose in my hand, and watched the careful distance he always kept start to crack.He rolled his shoulders once, like something under his skin itched. A fine tremor ran through the hand that held his stick. His breathing had changed—deeper, uneven. In the low light his eyes looked almost black.“Arabel.” My name came out rough. “Walk away. Now.”I didn’t move.Something flickered across his face—anger or warning or both. Then he dropped the stick. The sound of wood hitting ice was too loud in the empty rink. He closed the space between us in two long strides and stopped so close I had to tip my head back to meet his eyes.Heat rolled off him. Not the normal warmth of a body

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Todos os capítulos de The Hockey Alpha Dangerous Claimed : Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 4

chapter 1

chapter 2

chapter 3

chapter 4