Carrying the Hockey Prince's Secret child
Tobias buried it into the top corner—a 3-2 victory.
The final horn sounded, a roar tearing through the building as the boys flooded the ice to celebrate. Down on the promenade, Mireille and I were gathering our clipboards and laptop bags to head down to the locker room. A few paces behind us, Skye, whose left cheek was still visibly swollen like a puffed-up pastry, was trailing toward the concourse exit alongside the exiting crowd, muttering furiously into her phone.
As we rounded the turn toward the main exit corridor, a strange, sharp smell hit the back of my throat, something heavy, like kerosene mixed with burning rubber.