Chapter 36 What He Loses
Lena's POV
I notice it before he says anything, the way his focus fractures. Ryan has always carried himself like a man anchored to something solid, discipline, routine, and control carved into muscle memory. Even injured, even sidelined, he’s been deliberate and measured.
Today, he’s not.
He’s p...
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
32. Chapter 32 After Midnight
33. Chapter 33 The Line They Didn’t Cross
34. Chapter 34 Immediate Regret
35. Chapter 35 Fault Lines
36. Chapter 36 What He Loses
37. Chapter 37 Truth Without Touch, He promises restraint-but honesty.
38. Chapter 38 Terms of Control
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