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The Hockey King's Secret Twins

Chapter 9 

Word Count: 836    |    Released on: 22/10/2026

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ds versus Montreal.

at the Ashford Hotel, my back agai

lbow. By five, my shoulder. Now they were climbing my neck, and ever

erturned. The glass coffee table was i

light in my eyes. The Ironclads' team physician. One of three people aliv

y-one

esterday? The lin

y were ne

ked my pulse again. T

s, the flushing. This isn't just a flare."

hip on instinct. "Who? Nobody's

the flare worse. Much worse." Noah grabbed his bag. "Where

d. "Her driver say

d get her yourself. I'm getting the sedativ

shut be

n the corner. The pregame show was on, muted. A graphic flashed under the

wrong with me, my career was over. T

n't make it p

hirty

ssa

nd the Ashford smelled

rumpled suit hurried out of the shadows, clutchi

Sweating thr

ped out of the ca

handed over the cooler. "It's her. It's really

ed the bags and no

," Richard started

rned his head.

ney will be wired. If it do

ught his neck would snap, an

dow. "You heard

lie to us, Miss

ears ago." I stared at the cooler. "No

she's a blood b

de was a blood sample, a set of forged medical records with my name

, the Thorne

in the owner's box. A nobody figure skater from a trailer

im alive. That's what he believ

eezer full of it, drawn from his own daughter when she wa

, the free

sleeve and slid the needle into the inside of my wrist. I didn't even

at," my bodyguard said quietly. "He

, I've been the woman who saves him. Starting tonight,

e. He holds my waist for the cameras a

eart. Men send me ro

has never once looked

ut of the car, gazing up at the

that c

yker Thorn

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“They sold me for ten million dollars. One night with a stranger. My father signed the check. My stepmother poured the drug into my cocoa. My stepsister laughed while two men dragged me upstairs. The man who came to me in the dark was burning with fever, black veins crawling up his arm. He asked me only one thing: "Are you sure?" By dawn, he was gone. He never even saw my face. My family rolled me off a cliff into the river below, and went back inside to finish their wine. Five years later. Ryker Thorne, the billionaire captain of the Boston Ironclads, carries an unconscious woman through a hotel lobby. Then he stops cold. A four-year-old boy in an oversized number 19 jersey is hacking the hotel's computer, right under the front desk girl's nose. The boy looks up. Storm-gray eyes meet storm-gray eyes. The same cold stare Ryker sees in his own mirror before every game. "Dex," Ryker says quietly. "Find out everything about that woman." He doesn't know the boy has already hacked the hotel's security cameras and seen his mother being pulled into Suite 808. He doesn't know the boy has just torn his poster off the bedroom wall. "Ryker Thorne," the boy whispers into the dark. "You messed with the wrong family."”