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Erik sreat and all…but not sure I’ you”

“It’s gone and I think that has everything to do with you,” I tell hi He presses his lips tothat…it just overpowers ht need to collectwith joy or so And that’s why I’m out here”

Erik’s arht for an e about how secure I feel with him

Resting his cheek on the top of my head, he tells me, “If it makes you feel any better, you overwhelm me too Like you said, in the best of ways”Chapter 23ErikI’ure out what happened until I can see the gaed and I watch the two players grapple on the ice, I know our chances of winning this gaainst my former Demons team are down the drain

We had a chance to tie it up We were down 3–2 with a end off the ice and the minute he cleared it, we put an extra forward out there With our net e hard to put the puck in the net so we could tie it up and force overtime

Dax, Tacker, and Bishop have provided as good an offensive line as you can find in the league these days I take the right-side point and our other defenseman, Carter Frost, positions himself in front of the net as a screen The extra forward, a young rookie by the name of Guy De oalie

Tacker ht side just below me, while Bishop takes the center position near the blue line Dax takes the left, and as anticipated, because Tacker is our best player, the Deets the puck rather than hold their positions

Froether hundreds of tiht back to Tacker, keeping the Deo back to Bishop ill quickly unload it left to Dax

If all goes according to plan, Guy is screening the goalie and Dax is already winding up his slap shot when Bishop starts to pass it If it’s done fast enough, it should rocket into the net with no De the wiser

But that’s not what happens One of the Deood buddy of ether—rushes Tacker and starts a shoving ives it right back to hi us to shift over to the left side until Tacker can sort that shit out

The puck goes from Bishop to Dax, who considers a shot then reconsiders, passing it across the ice to lance back to Dax and that’s when all hell breaks loose

Somehow, Tacker and Nilsson end up on the ice with Tacker on top Nilsson is facedown, pinned under Tacker’s weight and I get a glie

Tacker’s stick is across Nilsson’s lower back, pinning hi and presses his shin against the back of the dude’s neck The refs and even the lines the stoppage in play, but before they can reach the back and viciously knees Nilsson in the head

He then does it again and I see Nilsson’s eyes roll up into the back of his head

Tacker is torn off the top of Nilsson, not by the refs, but by two other De to beat the shit out of our captain and best player None of us waste any ti at top speed to join the fray

There’s severalthat Tacker is the catalyst to this brawl, the refs zero in on hiht toward the door that leads off the ice to the locker rooame misconduct penalty