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Stuck Is Stuck

Author: Rejoice Ezeh
last update publish date: 2026-05-28 15:39:21

Knox's POV

I saw her the moment she stood up.

Most of the class was still packing their bags and shuffling toward the door when Ember rose from her seat, tucked her notebook under her arm, and walked straight to Professor Gallagher's desk with the focused energy of someone who had already decided how the next two minutes were going to go. She looked like a person with a completely reasonable request that she fully expected to be granted.

She is going to ask Gallagher to swap our assignment.

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    Ember's POVI heard him behind me before the door had fully closed.Not footsteps following me — just his voice, carrying through the gap before the door shut, the last of it reaching me in the corridor."I will destroy it."The door closed.I kept walking."Whatever it is," he said, muffled now through the door, the words reaching me anyway the way sounds reached me differently since the wolf had started waking. "I do not care what it takes. I do not care how long it takes." A pause. "I will destroy it."I turned a corner.The cafeteria was behind me and the corridor ahead was the ordinary busy corridor of a school between periods and I walked through it at a normal pace and told myself the coldness sitting in my chest was just the air conditioning.It was not just the air conditioning.---The facilities office was on the ground floor of the main building.I reported the writing on the cafeteria walls to a man who looked like he had heard many things in this office and was adding th

  • My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret    Chapter 169

    Ember's POVI was three steps from the cafeteria door when I heard his chair scrape.I did not stop walking."You have made a mistake," Ethan said.His voice carried across the room. Not shouting — he knew better than to shout in a room this full of people with phones. Just loud enough to reach me, loud enough that the people between us could hear it, loud enough to be a public statement rather than a private one.I stopped.Not because I was afraid.Because some conversations needed to be finished properly and walking away from an unfinished one in front of sixty people left the ending to the person who kept talking, and Ethan was not the person I wanted to leave with the ending.I turned around.He was on his feet beside the table we had shared. He had his hands at his sides and his jaw was set and the expression on his face had moved through the devastation and arrived somewhere harder."Rejecting me," he said, "is a mistake."The cafeteria was quiet again. It kept doing that — fin

  • My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret    Chapter 168

    Ember's POVI looked at him steadily."Leave me alone," I said.Ethan blinked."That is the one thing," I said. "Not a complicated task. Not something that requires resources or planning or any particular skill. Just — leave me alone." I held his gaze. "No calls. No texts. No showing up outside my dormitory. No delivering notes through junior students. No appearing in hallways and cafeterias and corridors and demanding conversations I have not agreed to have." I paused. "Leave me alone. Completely and permanently. That is what I want."He stared at me."You swore," I said. "On your mother."Something moved through his expression. Not anger — the specific devastation of someone who had expected to be asked for the impossible and had been given something worse than impossible. Something simple. Something he could not argue with or negotiate around or find a workaround for."Ember—""There is one more thing," I said.He waited."I was going to keep this between us," I said. "I had decide

  • My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret    Chapter 167

    Ember's POVRebecca lasted about four minutes.She tried. I could see her trying — eating her food, looking at her phone, finding things to occupy herself while Ethan sat at his table across the cafeteria and the room gradually returned to normal around the name still written on the walls.Then she put her fork down."I cannot," she said.I looked at her."I cannot sit here with him in the room," she said. "I know that is not what you need right now and I am sorry but I cannot do it." She picked up her bag. "I will find you after class.""Rebecca—""I am not angry at you," she said. "I just need to not be in this room." She looked at me with the honest, tired expression she had when she had reached a genuine limit and was not performing it. "Are you going to be okay?""Yes," I said.She nodded once.She left.I sat at the table and did not look at Ethan's side of the cafeteria and ate the rest of my lunch at a pace that said I was not rushing and I was not affected and this was a perf

  • My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret    Chapter 166

    Ember's POV"Are you hurt?" Ethan said again.He was looking at me directly now, the cafeteria scan abandoned, his eyes on my face and then moving down to my knee and back up. The expression on his face was the one I had not known how to categorize since he came back — not the calculated version, not the performance. Something that appeared to be genuine and made everything more complicated because genuine Ethan was harder to deal with than strategic Ethan."I am fine," I said."Who did it?" he said. "Someone pushed you. I saw you getting up from the floor when I came in.""Ethan—""Tell me who.""It is not your concern," I said. "Sit down or leave. Those are the options."He looked at the walls. At my name. At everything written around it."Charlotte," he said. Not a question. His jaw set."Do not," I said.He looked at me."Stay away from Charlotte," I said. Clearly. The way I said things when I needed them to land without any ambiguity about what I meant. "Whatever you are thinking

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    Ember's POVI should have seen it coming.In hindsight the signs were all there — the way Charlotte's expression had shifted when I turned away, the specific quality of someone who had been in control of a situation and had watched it leave their hands. People like Charlotte did not simply accept that and walk away. They did something with it.What she did was push me.Both hands, flat against my shoulders, the sharp sudden force of someone who had stopped performing the controlled version and had gone to the place underneath it where the unmanaged things lived. I went forward off the chair and hit the cafeteria floor on my palms and one knee and the sound of it — the chair scraping, the impact, the collective intake of breath from the room — was very loud in the silence that had built up around us.I looked at the floor.My palms were on the tile.Then I heard Rebecca."Don't—" I said.Too late.Rebecca was already moving. I heard her push back from the table and I looked up and she

  • My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret    Chapter 62

    Ember's POVTraining had become the fixed point of my day.Everything else moved around it — classes, meals, texts from Knox, the low-level watchfulness I had been carrying since the note under his door. But six o'clock, James's room, the tea and the biscuit and the quiet work of learning to manage

  • My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret    Chapter 60

    Ember's POVKnox showed me the note the next morning.He came to my room before breakfast, which he did not usually do, and I knew from the fact that he was there before eight that whatever he had to show me was not something he wanted to carry through a full day without telling me first.I opened

  • My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret    She Deserves Better

    Knox's POVThe bonfire had been going for two hours and I had spent most of it watching Ember from across the crowd without making it obvious that I was watching her.I was good at that. Years of learning how to stay alert in a room full of people without letting anyone see that you were doing it h

  • My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret    Something Is Wrong With Me

    Ember's POVAfter Knox left, the three of us stood in the room and Jessica was going on about the way he had supposedly been looking at her, and Kimberly was shaking her head saying no, she had watched the whole thing and Knox had barely taken his eyes off me for a second, and I was standing there

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