Will disappears in the middle of the night, leaving behind a life that has slowly learned how to hurt him quietly. He doesn't run toward answers. He runs toward memory, toward the one place where his body remembers what it felt like to be safe, long before he learned how to stay silent. Mike wasn't supposed to still be there. Not after two years of distance, unfinished conversations, and the kind of closeness that never really fades, only changes shape.

Athena Rossi -------------- One day everything changed. The ice suddenly didn't feel like my home anymore, instead it became my biggest fear. I swore to never go back to my old life, because it will never be the same. She's gone. Moving from Monaco to Massachusetts to attend Harvard to study nutrition was the only good thing that had happened in a while. Until I found out I will be the nutritionist for the boys hockey team...