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My father was a miracle worker

That day, Tuesday, was incredibly busy and insane at the offices We had to talk to the police again, field calls froers, make sure this spectacle didn’t put a hold on the other trade deals, and of course deal with the public ave a small press conference Tuesday afternoon whereby I spent all of ten seconds assuring the public I was fine and back to work, and then talked for the next ten minutes about our playoff hopes I minimized Claude’s attack and put the attention back on our hockey teaht in the arena of public opinion

Ryker stayed relatively low key on Tuesday We texted back and forth a few ti in with each other, but perthat would put the attention on the two of us This didn’t sit ith htily over the fact that Ryker was just so ready to give up his career so we could be together At first, I thought it was an incredibly rash decision and wondered how he could do so like that for a woht about everything I knew about Ryker His dedication and loyalty The way he loves deeply and surely His joy and the way he just masters his life as if it’s effortless He has such confidence in hiiven so careful consideration

He has practically every character trait that I aspire to have, and I realize he’s actually my role model He’s my lover, but he’s also my role model

My father told me as we sat in the hospital what Ryker told hiive up his career

That I deserved ht have agreed with hio But when I saw the way Ryker saved ht a knife-wielding maniac, it made me realize I didn’t deserve that chance more than he did

It made me realize I just had to work harder to find a way that we could both have ant, and if I couldn’t, then I was prepared to give up everything up for hi to do

My father and I talked long into wee hours of the next ht, we talked sooals We’ve had those talks before, but they always focused on education, business, hockey, and career decisions Noas thinking about love and relationships and children, and my dad actually liked that

It eird…and yet, not weird

My father helped ured out what needed to be done

"We" figured it out, because I would not be sitting here in this oalie net if it wasn’t for my father and his brilliance

Now, I have no clue if this is going to work If both Ryker and I will get all that ant, and hopefully more But if it doesn’t, the worst that will happen is I’ll lose my job The best that will happen in any scenario is that I will have Ryker