The Way He Looked at Me
Laughter ricocheted, voices tangled.
In the middle of it, Tyler slipped me aside. Small, badly wrapped gift in hand. His eyes were intense, tracking me as I struggled with tape hands brushing mine in the kind of gentle, unintentional intimacy that makes blood race.
I knew instantly what it was. A puck. Simple. Circular. Black rubber, about three inches across. But the signature stopped my breath.
Smith. Williams.
My hand shot to my mouth, eyes stinging. The ache in my throat wasn’t just from shock it was something darker, deeper, twisting. A memory. A history. A grief I thought I’d buried. And yet here it was, in my hands, impossible and undeniable.
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