Where The Ice Gives Way novel Chapter 66

Chapter 66 Getting Somewhere

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Charlotte stays curled beneath the blanket with her head tucked against Charlie’s shoulder and her legs wet toward me. Har en cad evened out now, and a few strands of pale hair keep falling across her cheek Charlie se stal beside her. Will for the gasyaly One an braced along the back of the couch behind her, the other resting over the blanket near her knee. Every so often, his eyes ding to her why the is still sleeping properly before he looks back up at whatever is happening in the room. Then is stretched out in the armchair opponeses with one ankle over his knee and a mug balanced in both hands, unusually quiet for once. Lex paces slowly beneath my skin, calmey now, tong still slightly on edges

he says, and there is a low note of wwe in it. Our beautiful mate

I look at

warm spreads through me. Yeah, I send back quietly. She h. Lex sounds reverent when he talks abent her watched it happen. We watched Charlotte stand there, Shanti shining through her, and pour that impossiede de dropped to his knees and cried like a man waking from a nightmare. My brain can’t fully wrap around the ad glances over at me, “You gonna keep staring at her like that all day?” I blink and look at him, and Then shorts e I was,” I mutter.

harlotte breathes out and nestles a little deeper into Charlie’s side. His whole body softens straight away, and some fight chest cases at the sight of it. There is nothing defensive in him right now. No edge. No warning Just his sister sleeping while he lets me sit close enough that my leg presses lightly against the blanket over hers. He lets as stay, Lex says with a strange, of pride. Yeah, I tell him. We’re getting somewhere.

e’s eyes flick toward me like he knows exactly where my thoughts have gone. “You’re doing it again,” he says quietly. I glance at him. ng what?”

Looking at her like the rest of us aren’t even in the room. It’s creepy, man.” I don’t miss Theo huffing into his mug, trying and failing to hide grin. I lean back into the couch and drag my gaze from Charlotte long enough to look at them both. “Can you blame me?” Charlie sports softly. “I really don’t want to answer that.” Charlotte shifts beneath the blanket, her hand loosening near her chest before she settles again, and all three of us go quiet for a second without thinking. Charlie’s eyes drop to her face, checking, and when he looks back up, the edge of his expression has softened. The room stays hushed around us, the house moving in low sounds and muffled footsteps. The three of us sit there with Charlotte sleeping between us like she has become the centre of the whole place without even trying. Theo rolls the mug between his hands. “She’s going to lose her mind when hockey season starts again.” Charlie glances across at him. “Lotty?” Theo nods. “Half the school

already froths over game nights. Add in the fact that she’s mated to Wellington’s golden boy, and the whole place is going to be even more

unbearable.” I roll my eyes. “Golden boy?” Theo points his mug at me. “You know exactly what you are.” Charlie looks down at Charlotte, then over at me. “She did come to practice pretty quietly the first few times.” I frown slightly at that. “I noticed.”

“She’s naturally quiet,” Charlie says. “It takes her a while to come out of her shell, but when she does, it’s always special.” Theo tips his head back against the chair. “She’ll fit in with the team fine.” Charlie’s mouth twitches. “With the girls, probably. With the Idiots in the stands?

Different story.”

“She’s already handling you two,” Theo says. “That’s

her.

ed training.” This time, Charlie actually laughs, low enough not to wake

Then the back door opens and

together, both carrying the

his neck, and Dad’s shoul

legs beneath the blank

quietly.

the heavier sound of boots on timber. Dad and John come in

of their jeans. John has a fresh scratch running along one side of his head, and I sit forward a little, careful not to bump Charlotte’s oftens when he sees Charlotte asleep there. “How is she?” he asks

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Chapter 66 Getting Somewhere

“Sleeping like a baby protected by wolves.” Theo says. Charlie glances down at her and adjusts the blanket higher ones by show de hasn’t moved much.” Dad nods once, then looks toward the kitchen. “John.” John jerks his head that way, and the two of them start to moss off, clearly intending to keep the conversation away from the couch. I push up automatically, and the second i do, Charistte makes a wit sound. It is barely more than a whimper, but it stops me cold. Her head shifts and her body turns, searching. The blanket putts with her toward the space I just left. Charlie frowns at me over the top of her bowed head. “Sit.” I look at him as his face stays flat. “She doesn’t want you fo go.” Lex goes still beneath my skin, then gives this smug, satisfied little rumble. Our mate wants us close. I sit back down quickly. The costion dips and Charlotte settles instantly, her body easing with one slow breath, her leg brushing mine beneath the blanket. Charlie watches the whole thing, then shakes his head once while letting out a long sigh. “Well… I guess it’s inevitable.”

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