Chapter 54: The TrapIanMy face stayed calm, even though the goal had only tied the score at two apiece. My thoughts were far from calm. Every time Ariel grinned at me from across the ice, my patience wore thinner.I could not stand her smugness any longer. At the same time, I had to admit privately that she was a very tough opponent. To the spectators, her tanker tactic looked basic. To me, it was a high-level psychological move. Each reckless charge was meant to make us angry and careless, and it had already worked on Aaliyah."Not again," I muttered. "She does not get to play with us twice."The referee blew the whistle for a short pause, and the teams drifted back to their sides. I called everyone into a tight circle near the boards."Listen carefully," I said. "Ariel is not reckless. She wants us to think she is.""She looked pretty reckless when she flattened me," Jackson grumbled."That was her plan," I answered. "She charges, we panic, and her team follows through the gap

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Xavier's POVThe office was silent, and the silence gave my thoughts nowhere else to go. None of my men had knocked in over an hour, and every report on my desk had already been read twice.I sat in my chair with a pen in my hand and my jaw tight, yet I had not written a single word.I was angry, though I could not name anyone in particular to be angry with. Victor deserved it, and so did the Laurents, but the feeling did not belong to any one of them.It stayed with me no matter whom I blamed.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Nadia on that dungeon floor. She had pulled her injured arm against her chest and begged me not to hurt her before I had even touched her.She was only nineteen, and no one that young should have learned to fear a kind voice.Then there was the mark. It was small and crescent-shaped, sitting at the base of her neck exactly where my father had said it would be.I had told myself a hundred times that many people were born with marks, and a hundred times my ow

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