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Chapter 35

Author: Rejoice Ezeh
last update publish date: 2026-06-08 21:18:00

Knox's POV

The training field at midnight was different from the training field at noon.

In the day it was loud and purposeful — coaches calling out, blades on ice, the particular noise of a team in motion. At midnight it was just the field and the dark and the sound of your own breathing, and that was exactly what I had come for.

I had been out here for forty minutes. Stick work mostly, running the sequences I used to work through when I was younger and something was bothering me and the ice w
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