Empowering 9

Empowering 9

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❝ I can admit, I am not fireproof. I feel it burning me. I feel it burning you. I hope I don't murder me. I hope I don't burden you. ❞ - Tadgh Lynch knows what broken looks like. At seventeen, the scars he carries don't show on his skin, but they live in his chest. Quiet until something, or someone, wakes them. He's learned how to survive by pretending he's fine, by locking the past away and refusing to look too closely at the people around him. Especially her. Alannah Kennedy is the girl everyone underestimates. The protector. The reckless one. The one who burns so her family doesn't have to. She loves too hard, hurts too quietly, and copes in ways that are slowly destroying her. Drugs, alcohol, bodies that don't ask questions. She's learned that if she keeps moving, she won't have to feel. When Alannah crashes into Tadgh's life, he sees the signs immediately. The flinches. The self-destruction. The way pain clings to her like a second skin. It mirrors his own too closely to be a coincidence. So he ignores it. Because recognizing her pain means confronting his own-and some wounds don't fade when you press them together. Some only bleed more. As their worlds intertwine, the lines between saving and hurting blur, and the people around them become lifelines neither of them asked for. But love doesn't always fix what's broken. Sometimes, it just shows you how deep the cracks really go. - * All characters in this book are owned by Chloe walsh, Except for the Kennedy siblings, Kian Donovan, Niamh Buckley and Finn McCarthy!!!! *
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Quinn Taylor has made a career out of looking calm. On the ice, she's America's favorite kind of pressure-proof-bright smile, steady answers, the skater everyone wants to root for. Off the ice, she's an only child with a perfectionist's brain and a habit of carrying too much alone. The cameras love her. The country expects her. And the one place she can't afford to fall apart is the one place she's dreamed of since she was little. The Olympics. Macklin Celebrini has always made things feel lighter. He was the new kid at a Northern California rink at twelve-Canadian, polite, a little lost-until Quinn decided he was hers to keep. He became her best friend in the cold air and early mornings, the person who could make her laugh mid-breakdown and never ask her to perform for him. Then life did what life does: seasons changed, schedules got brutal, distance widened, and the kind of friendship that felt unbreakable turned into occasional texts and quiet missing. Now they're both back where the world is loudest. At the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Quinn is chasing the skate of her life for Team USA. Mack is carrying his own weight for Team Canada hockey. When reporters find out they grew up together, the story writes itself-childhood friends reunited, smiles caught on camera, a thousand strangers deciding what they are to each other. The only problem is... the strangers aren't entirely wrong. Between past chapters at a small California rink and present days in the Olympic Village, Quinn and Mack have to figure out what they really meant to each other then-and what they're allowed to be now, with medals on the line and the whole world watching. Because it's one thing to love someone quietly from a distance. It's another to have them show up in your life again and make everything feel possible.

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