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Kade POV **Warning this contains scenes of attempted r*pe**

The tension lingers in the room for a while after Rook leaves, thick and heavy, but it doesn’t take long before the guys start filling the space with their usual bullshit. At first, it’s just them hovering, asking the same questions the doctors already answered, making sure I can still talk, move, see straight. It’s their way of checking in without making it obvious they give a shit.

Then the mood starts to shift. The heavy silence lifts, giving way to jokes, laughter, the kind of easy banter that’s second nature to us. Tyler starts it, shaking his head as he grins down at me.

“Damn, Mercer, I knew you liked attention, but this is a bit dramatic, don’t you think?”

“Yeah,” someone else chimes in. “You didn’t have to nearly die just to get a night off.”

The laughter spreads through the group, and before I know it, they’re cracking jokes about the hit, exaggerating every detail.

“Dude, I swear, when you hit the ice, I thought yo
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