Chapter 111 The Hot Seat
Aveline's POV
The door of the athletic director’s office shut with a definitive click. It felt like the door of an interrogation room.
Three league board members sat behind a long desk, looking down at me through expensive glasses. They didn't look like hockey enthusiasts. They looked like corporat...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Night Everything Changed
2. Chapter 2 Crestwood
3. Chapter 3 House Rules
4. Chapter 4 What The Hell Did I Do
5. Chapter 5 Avoidance is a Myth
6. Chapter 6 “The Quiet Ones Notice Everything
7. Chapter 7 Locker Room Blood
8. Chapter 8 Mascot
9. Chapter 9 Tryouts
10. Chapter 10 Unnecessary Feelings
11. Chapter 11 Cassian Thorne
12. Chapter 12 Penalty Box
13. Chapter 13 Too Close
14. Chapter 14 Hospital Room
15. Chapter 15 The Burn Book
16. Chapter 16 Straight Boys Don’t Think Like This
17. Chapter 17 The Fight
18. Chapter 18 Asher Carter Wasn’t Innocent
19. Chapter 19 Partystorm
20. Chapter 20 Rumors
21. Chapter 21 First Blood
22. Chapter 22 Obsessed
23. Chapter 23 Secrets Under Ice
24. Chapter 24 Enemy Lines
25. Chapter 25 Tournament Week
26. Chapter 26 Impact
27. Chapter 27 Not My Truth to Tell
28. Chapter 28 Performance
29. Chapter 29 Unanswered Questions
30. Chapter 30 Away Games
31. Chapter 31 Shared Spaces
32. Chapter 32 Pressure Lines
33. Chapter 33 Boston Nights
34. Chapter 34 Losing Control
35. Chapter 35 The Morning After
36. Chapter 36 Assigned Partners
37. Chapter 37 Understanding you better
38. Chapter 38 Between Protection and Perception
39. Chapter 39 The Safety Net
40. Chapter 40 Claiming the Ice
41. Chapter 41 Waking Up to the Truth
42. Chapter 42 Secrets in Boston
43. Chapter 43 The Mascot’s Shadow
44. Chapter 44 Under Construction
45. Chapter 45 Heavy Shoulders
46. Chapter 46 The Gravity of Us
47. Chapter 47 Quiet calls
48. Chapter 48 I will always choose you
49. Chapter 49 The Friction of Shadows
50. Chapter 50 Bleeding edge
51. Chapter 51 The Clockwork Cage
52. Chapter 52 The Phantom Protocol
53. Chapter 53 The On-Ice Collapse
54. Chapter 54 The Summer Shift
55. Chapter 55 The One I Couldn’t Ignore
56. Chapter 56 Everything I Thought Was Wrong
57. Chapter 57 The Shoreline Promise
58. Chapter 58 Coming Back to You
59. Chapter 59 The Storm Trap
60. Chapter 60 After the Storm
61. Chapter 61 The Last Night
62. Chapter 62 A heartbeat too late
63. Chapter 63 The Last Goodbye
64. Chapter 64 Revenge On Ice
65. Chapter 65 The Return of Number 14
66. Chapter 66 The Puck Drops
67. Chapter 67 The Invite to the Lake House
68. Chapter 68 Lies and Alibis
69. Chapter 69 Mandate for Game Night
70. Chapter 70 The Weight of Whispers
71. Chapter 71 Sparks and Shadows
72. Chapter 72 The Hidden Drive
73. Chapter 73 The black screen
74. Chapter 74 The Pre-Game Spotlight
75. Chapter 75 The Coach’s Fury
76. Chapter 76 The locked door
77. Chapter 77 The Blood Stained Note
78. Chapter 78 The Morning After
79. Chapter 79 The Unholy Alliance
80. Chapter 80 The Tiger's Cage
81. Chapter 81 The Double Date Trap
82. Chapter 82 The Photo in the Locker
83. Chapter 83 The Captain's Corner
84. Chapter 84 Championship qualifier
85. Chapter 85 Cutthroat Ice
86. Chapter 86 Family drama
87. Chapter 87 The Shared Space
88. Chapter 88 Hampton legacy
89. Chapter 89 The New Lineup
90. Chapter 90 Sidelines
91. Chapter 91 The Price of the Trophy
92. Chapter 92 The Miracle
93. Chapter 93 The Phantom Captain
94. Chapter 94 The Devil's Table
95. Chapter 95 The Dead Vessel
96. Chapter 96 The Broken Boundary
97. Chapter 97 The Mirror Image
98. Chapter 98 Caged
99. Chapter 99 Caged 2
100. Chapter 100 What Matters Most
101. Chapter 101 Championship Match
102. Chapter 102 Win It or Lose It
103. Chapter 103 Payback
104. Chapter 104 Seven minutes in heaven
105. Chapter 105 Indirect Question
106. Chapter 106 Bathroom Spy
107. Chapter 107 The Return
108. Chapter 108 Whatever It Takes
109. Chapter 109 The Fuse is Lit
110. Chapter 110 The Silent Table
111. Chapter 111 The Hot Seat
112. Chapter 112 The Compromise
113. Chapter 113 The Fake Girlfriend Alibi
114. Chapter 114 The Mountain Trap
115. Chapter 115 A Flash in the Snow
116. Chapter 116 The Steep Hill
117. Chapter 117 Truth or Dare
118. Chapter 118 Erasing Aveline
119. Chapter 119 Last Bell Before Winter
120. Chapter 120 The Silent Threshold
121. Chapter 121 Christmas Is Coming
122. Chapter 122 The Break Line
123. Chapter 123 The Cost of Letting Go
124. Chapter 124 The Wrong Enemy
125. Chapter 125 The Heart of the Group
126. Chapter 126 The Uninvited Truth
127. Chapter 127 Christmas Eve
128. Chapter 128 Forgiveness at Midnight
129. Chapter 129 The Broken Timeline
130. Chapter 130 the Eighth session
131. Chapter 131 The Longest Night
132. Chapter 132 The Logic of a Witness
133. Chapter 133 The Ledger in the Lining
134. Chapter 134 The Thirty-Minute Lie
135. Chapter 135 The Clinic Gatekeeper
136. Chapter 136 The Sabotaged Schedule
137. Chapter 137 The Sponsor Dinner
138. Chapter 138 Katty's Deal
139. Chapter 139 The New Year's Eve Pre-Game Chaos
140. Chapter 140 The Shattered Identity
141. Chapter 141 The Price of Knowing
142. Chapter 142 The Next Move
143. Chapter 143 The First Morning Back
144. Chapter 144 The Wrong Ally
145. Chapter 145 Zero Percent Trust
146. Chapter 146 Out of Options
147. Chapter 147 The Right Tone
148. Chapter 148 Broken Ranks
149. Chapter 149 The Ice Cold Shoulder
150. Chapter 150 The Switch
151. Chapter 151 The Dead Can't Speak
152. Chapter 152 School trip
153. Chapter 153 The Campus Core
154. Chapter 154 The Breaking Point
155. Chapter 155 The True Name
156. Chapter 156 The Real Deal
157. Chapter 157 The Hampton Name
158. Chapter 158 The opportunity
159. Chapter 159 Forced moves
160. Chapter 160 The Last Secret
161. Chapter 161 The Name in the Yearbook
162. Chapter 162 Forced Into the Spotlight
163. Chapter 163 Tensions Rising
164. Chapter 164 The Dare
165. Chapter 165 The Connection
166. Chapter 166 The Line Was Crossed
167. Chapter 167 The Missing Minutes
168. Chapter 168 The Choice
169. Chapter 169 The Secret on the Scoreboard
170. Chapter 170 The confession
171. Chapter 171 The First Crack
172. Chapter 172 Reinstated
173. Chapter 173 Milford
174. Chapter 174 The Way Back to You
175. Chapter 175 The Tide
176. Chapter 176 The Past Comes Calling
177. Chapter 177 We Never Suspected
178. Chapter 178 The Final Pieces
179. Chapter 179 The Final Whistle
180. Chapter 180 Finally Aveline
181. Chapter 181 EPILOGUE
182. Chapter 182 Author’s Note
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