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e noise behind me slowly began to fade
and my team was still celebrating somewhere behind
e corridor that led toward the exit, trying to ign
hockey world was n
er stopped demanding answers and a future I had never agreed to.As Alpha, they all wanted the same t
every quiet conversation ended i
A perfect symbol for unity. A perfect way to satisfy expectations without conflict bu
r to the exit, freedom was supposed
pressure from a
s, slightly hidden from the main path where everyone else had already left. At first I almo
the one who had fallen during the match and stood alone
e it much. They used something
irl." As if reducing someone
ed I had done it, she looked wors
mpletely collapsed and she was trying to sit
inally noticed me, her eyes lifted slightly, red and wet, and for a mome
almost broken. "Do you
ike she had been hold
tly. "I did not come
trength to hold eye contact for long. Then I aske
e you c
the edge of the jacket I had given her earlier, and I could see her try
tting inside her chest for too long and finally forced t
ward slightly as if her body could no longe
ifted, not sympathy al
rstood what it meant. "It scr
n her. It was not the usual reaction I had learned to control o
uietly, watching her break apart in front of me while
, I did not wal
egain whatever dignity she still had left. "I am fin
I had seen enough peo
My gaze stayed on her
lly, still unaware of how strongly my wolf was react
ike something inside me had already decided before my mind had caught up. I stepped slightly closer withou
steady but different."Do you mind comi
en us like something n
body froz
confusion breaking through
d in that silence, I realized I had just changed everyth
eady chosen and wouldn'
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