I Found the Hockey King's Son, Now He Wants Me as His Mate

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the weight of

ocialite was finally getting tied down. The news of my engagement to the

what they were whispering behind their champagne flutes-they were waiting

us dream. He was charming a reporter from Sports Illustra

wded ballroom and landed on my

her posture deceptively casual. But her eyes,

ghtened in my stoma

ight. I wouldn't

walked toward Evan, my arm

rid smell of

he far end of the ballroom. The fi

someon

expl

way toward the exits. The wav

and clutching Evan's ar

the distance. Ariane. She had stumbled over a fallen decoration,

eted into a co

it lasted only a second. He ripped his arm from my

t! Ariane, she..." He di

n't ha

st the tide of fleeing pe

severing three years of my life with one clean, brutal cut. But the blistering heat quickly s

e choked my lungs, I turned and fought

panicked crowd was a mindless, frantic beast. "Move!" I t

ending me careening forward. Before I could rega

y the frantic mob, my cheek h

the encroaching inferno, but my limbs felt like lead. I looked up, my vi

oing t

ght of my life, abandoned by the man I loved. Th

e up from the floor. I was lifted against a hard chest, the scent

tall figure wearing a firefighter's mask. He was built like a mo

rything w

and the sterile scent of antiseptic. An IV was t

llivan. You have some smoke inhalation, but you'll be fi

t Ariane. But the words wouldn't come. His back, a

in my eyes. "Your family will be here

mi

d my lips. Did I have

e New York City skyline. The neon lights blur

on an endless loop. The ache in my chest was a th

ully constructed lie. And

he morning news. A breaking news banner crawled across the

ment Party: Fiancé's Heroic

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lips. The agonizing ache in my chest instantly calcified int

he room into silence. I reached up, aggressively wip

. They thought they could humiliate me and walk away unscathed?The naive Chloe migh