Chapter 18 Control Breaks
The silence is louder than anything else.
It follows us into the rehab room, stretches between the mats, settles into the air like a held breath that never releases. Ryan doesn’t speak when he enters. Neither do I. The door closes behind him with a soft click that feels far too final.
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 First Encounter
2. Chapter 2 Close Quarters
3. Chapter 3 Crossing the Line
4. Chapter 4 The Heat of the Game
5. Chapter 5 Ice and Fire
6. Chapter 6 Temptation on Ice
7. Chapter 7 Fault Lines
8. Chapter 8 Power Play
9. Chapter 9 Whisper Campaign
10. Chapter 10 Red Line
11. Chapter 11 Closed Door
12. Chapter 12 What the Ice Takes Back
13. Chapter 13 The Cost of Staying
14. Chapter 14 Before the Fall
15. Chapter 15 Stay Invisible
16. Chapter 16 Terms of Control
17. Chapter 17 Exclusive Rights
18. Chapter 18 Control Breaks
19. Chapter 19 When Sleep Betrays Me
20. Chapter 20 The Body Remembers Before the Mind Does
21. Chapter 21 The Ice Keeps Score
22. Chapter 22 Patterns Don’t Lie
23. Chapter 23 After the Applause
24. Chapter 24 Stormbound
25. Chapter 25 Confessions in the Storm
26. Chapter 26 The Line That Starts to Bleed
27. Chapter 27 The Distance He Chooses
28. Chapter 28 The Shape of Absence
29. Chapter 29 The Performance of Moving On
30. Chapter 30 Clean Lines, Sharp Edges
31. Chapter 31 The Thing He Can’t Control
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