All Chapters of My Hockey Alpha Deadly Secret : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

110 Chapters

The Worst Birthday Ever

Ember's POVTonight was supposed to be the best night of my life.I stood in front of the bathroom mirror and carefully lined my lips, taking my time the way I never usually did. I was the kind of girl who rushed through getting ready because there was always something more important waiting — a lecture to read, an assignment to finish, a test to study for. But not tonight. Tonight I took my time because tonight was different.Tonight, Ethan was going to tell the whole world we were together.For six whole months, I had been his secret. We talked on the phone late at night when nobody could hear. We met in hallways where the popular crowd never hung around. We sat at different ends of the cafeteria and pretended not to know each other. Six months of being invisible, of being the girl he was too embarrassed to be seen with in public. And I had accepted all of it because I loved him, and I believed him every single time he told me he was going to make things right.Tonight was supposed

Something About Her

Knox's POV I almost didn't go to the party. Parties were not really my thing, not in the way people thought they were. Everyone assumed that because I was the team captain and because girls always wanted to talk to me and because I had a reputation that followed me everywhere I went, I must love being the center of attention. They were wrong. I went to parties because my teammates expected it. I stood around long enough to satisfy the obligation, I stayed sober because I could never afford not to, and then I left. That was my plan tonight. But something made me stay longer than usual. I was standing near the window, half watching the party and half watching the sky outside, when I felt it — that familiar pull in my chest that meant the full moon was getting close. I needed to leave soon. I needed to get back to my apartment and lock the door before the moon rose high enough to start pulling at something inside me that I could not control in public. I was about to go when she wal

Get Out

Ember's POV I woke up in the middle of the night and for about three seconds, I didn't know where I was. Then it all came back. The party. Ethan. The key. Knox's apartment and the trophies on every shelf and the way he had looked at me when I told him I had never done this before — not with pity, not with impatience, but with something that looked almost like care. Knox had kept every single promise he made. I lay still and stared at the ceiling and let myself sit with that for a moment. I had been so afraid it was going to be a disaster and I was going to regret it the second it was over. But lying there in the quiet of his room, with the sheet pulled up around me and the city making its soft nighttime sounds outside the window, I didn't feel any of the things I had prepared myself to feel. I felt okay. I actually felt okay. Maybe even a little more than okay. I smiled at the ceiling in the dark like an idiot, and then I turned over to look at Knox. He wasn't there. The bed

The Curse

Knox's POVThe moment the door clicked shut behind her, I lost the fight. I had been holding it back since the second I turned from the window and saw her eyes open in the dark, through all of her questions and all of her anger and all of the things she said that I knew I deserved. I had stood there and taken every single word because I couldn't explain, and I couldn't explain because there was no version of the truth that was safe for her to know. Not yet. Maybe not ever. But now she was gone, and the full moon was directly overhead, and I had nothing left to hold it back with. The pain started in my spine. It always started in the spine — a deep, burning pressure, like something inside the bone was trying to push its way out. I stumbled away from the door and grabbed the edge of the dresser with both hands, gripping it hard enough to leave marks in the wood. My skin felt like it was too small for whatever was underneath it. My vision went white at the edges. I had been through t

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 listening to all of it while a completely different conversation was happening inside my head. "So what do you think?" Kimberly was looking at me with that expression she used when she had already made up her mind and was just waiting for you to catch up. "I think Knox Rivers has a crush on you." "Knox is a player," I said. "He changes girls like he changes his clothes. He is not my type." "Knox may be a player," Jessica said, looking genuinely offended on his behalf, "but he is literally everybody's type. Nobody is immune to Knox Rivers. That is just a fact." "Can we just go to the game?" I said. "I want to sit down and drink something cold and not think about anything for a few hours."

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 had made me very good at that. My teammates thought I was relaxed and having a good time. My coach, who had stopped by to congratulate the team on the win, thought the same thing. Nobody could tell that my attention had barely left one person all night.She was standing with Kimberly and Jessica near the edge of the bonfire, holding a cup she had not been drinking from, laughing at the right moments but not really there. I knew what not really there looked like on a person because I spent a significant portion of my own life performing a version of it. The difference between Ember doing it and me doing it was that she had no idea she was doing it at all.She has been off since the game. Since

Stuck With You

Ember's POVOf all the things Knox could have said to me in that moment, he chose Ethan.Ethan. The boy who cheated on me in my own bed on my birthday, who I had spent two whole days trying to push to the back of my mind. Knox had watched all of it happen, stepped in, walked me home, and now here he was in the dark behind the bonfire asking about him like it was the most natural thing in the world.I turned around slowly. "Excuse me?""Ethan," he repeated. "How are things going with him?""Knox." I walked back toward him because I needed him to hear this up close. "You do not get to ask me that. You kicked me out of your apartment in the middle of the night without one word of explanation, you showed up at my dorm the next morning with a story about stepping on my foot, and now you want to know about my ex-boyfriend? Like you have any right to anything about my life?""I am asking because something felt off tonight and I was—""No." I cut him off cleanly. "You do not get to notice thi

Stuck Is Stuck

Knox's POVI 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.I leaned back in my seat and waited. I was not proud of the fact that I was enjoying this even slightly, but I had spent two days on the receiving end of Ember Cole's determination, and watching it meet the one person on this campus who was completely unmovable was something I was going to allow myself a quiet moment of appreciation for.Professor Gallagher did not swap assignments for anyone. I had watched three different people try over two semesters. The result was always the same.I was too far

Who Told?

Ember's POVRebecca pulled back and looked at me, waiting."What rumors?" I said."The whole campus is talking about you and Knox." Rebecca kept her voice low, leaning close. "Someone posted about it this morning — said you two have been secretly sleeping together for weeks. By noon it was in every group chat. People are adding details, making it bigger. Ember, it is everywhere."The corridor noise continued around us like nothing had happened. A group of students walked past laughing about something. Someone slammed a locker. Everything completely normal except for the fact that my stomach had just dropped somewhere near the floor."That is not true," I said."Okay," Rebecca said, in the tone she used when she was being patient with me."It is not true the way they are saying it," I said, which was a different thing and I knew it and so did Rebecca from the way her expression did not change at all."Ember.""Rebecca.""Just tell me," she said. "Did something happen between you and Kn

Nowhere to Hide

Knox's POVIt started with one person.Then two. Then five. And by the time I registered what was happening there were at least a dozen people gathered at the entrance of the rink corridor — phones up, some recording openly, some pretending not to while their screens were clearly pointed at us. A girl near the front said something to her friend and they both laughed. Someone else called out Knox's name like this was entertainment.Ember went rigid beside me.I let go of her arm and stepped in front of her, putting my back to the crowd."Okay, we're done here," I said, loud enough to carry. "Move along."A few people shuffled back. Most did not. One guy near the far wall kept his phone raised and aimed directly at us, and I held eye contact with him for five full seconds until he finally looked away and lowered it."Knox," Ember said behind me, quiet and tight."I know." I turned back to her. "Come on. Not here.""But I need to—""Ember." I kept my voice low. "Every second we stand her

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