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After a clean-scoring moment, a sudden hit leaves him dazed while the arena’s reaction forces him to keep acting confident. As the next shift begins, subtle physical distortions and involuntary flinches raise unsettling concerns about what happened on the ice and why the team’s presence becomes medically charged.","CRASH OUT  \nAFTER THE WHISTLE  \nBOOK 2  \nLUCY NORAN  \nENID BOOKS  \nOCEANOFPDF.COM  \nCopyright © 2026 by Lucy Noran and Enid Books  \nCover art by Guinevere Illustrations @guine_evere and typography by J Summer Design. All rights reserved.  \nNo part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor the readers who know being too much is just another way of asking to be held harder.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nChapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nChapter 19  \nChapter 20  \nChapter 21  \nChapter 22  \nChapter 23  \nChapter 24  \nChapter 25  \nChapter 26  \nChapter 27  \nChapter 28  \nChapter 29  \nChapter 30  \nChapter 31  \nChapter 32  \nChapter 33  \nChapter 34  \nEpilogue  \nAbout the Author  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1  \nT he thing about playing hurt was that the crowd never knew the  \ndifference.  \nNeither did I half the time, which was either a testament to my pain tolerance or a pretty serious character flaw.  \nProbably both.  \nI'd been running the trick since I was sixteen, since the first time a hit rattled something loose and I looked up at the arena lights thinking exactly one thought: get up.  \nSo I got up, because the alternative was lying there while hundreds of people quietly revised their opinion of me.  \nHard pass.  \nI had a personal policy against giving anyone that kind of ammunition. Tonight the ice is mine, motherfuckers.  \nThird period, Wardens up by one against Sentinels, and I was running hot—the kind of hot where your body stops asking questions and just goes.  \nI took Dylan's pass at the blue line and didn't think, because thinking was for suckers who hadn’t had three energy drinks before warm-ups.  \nI could see the opportunity, like the ice was doing me a personal favor, and I took the shot from a place I had absolutely no business taking it from— It went in.  \nThe building lost its fucking mind.  \nThe Morr Roar started somewhere in the upper bowl. It always started up there with the diehards, the ones who'd been doing it since my first season last year.  \nThen it came down in a wave.  \nTheir hands raised like paws, fifteen thousand people doing their best lion impression just for me, just for Wesley Morrison—which should have been ridiculous and was instead the best sound in the world.  \nI had my arms up before the red light confirmed it, because I knew, I always knew, and the Morr Roar was still rolling through the building when I turned to point at Dylan—  \nThen the hit came from the right.  \nA defenseman I hadn't tracked, coming in fast and low, and the contact was hard enough that my helmet snapped back. Everything went white for a second before coming back slightly wrong.  \nThe crowd did that thing crowds do, that big collective inhale, the halfsecond where fifteen thousand people decide whether to celebrate or panic.  \nI got up slow.  \nBut then I smiled, and fifteen thousand people lost their minds all over again. That was the deal. That was the transaction.  \nI had been doing this since I was a little kid. The grin, the arms, the give them the moment. In foster care it was smaller scale. Different audience. Same transaction.  \nThe system had been running since before I knew it was a system. Since before the Morrisons. Since before anyone had shown up.  \nSo I gave this crowd the moment, and they gave me the noise, and everyone went home happy and nobody had to know that my ears were ringing and the ice looked slightly tilted.  \nI was maybe twenty percent sure I’d just rattled my brain loose.  \nTwenty percent was fine, right? That meant there was an eighty percent chance eve","cbCaiePzg5Pzvcgj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiePzg5Pzvcgj","pdf",2786729,5,245,"English","en",105,"# Chapter 1\n# Chapter 2\n# Chapter 3\n# Chapter 4\n# Chapter 5\n# Chapter 6\n# Chapter 7\n# Chapter 8\n# Chapter 9\n# Chapter 10\n# Chapter 11\n# Chapter 12\n# Chapter 13\n# Chapter 14\n# Chapter 15\n# Chapter 16\n# Chapter 17\n# Chapter 18\n# Chapter 19\n# Chapter 20\n# Chapter 21\n# Chapter 22\n# Chapter 23\n# Chapter 24\n# Chapter 25\n# Chapter 26\n# Chapter 27\n# Chapter 28\n# Chapter 29\n# Chapter 30\n# Chapter 31\n# Chapter 32\n# Chapter 33\n# Chapter 34\n# Epilogue\n# About the Author","[{\"question\":\"What happens to Wesley Morrison right after he scores?\",\"answer\":\"He celebrates intensely, but a hard hit from the right snaps his helmet back and leaves him briefly stunned, with his perception momentarily turning white and wrong.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does Wesley keep performing despite feeling injured?\",\"answer\":\"He relies on a personal “transaction” between his grin and arms and the crowd’s approval, forcing himself to stay upright and deliver the moment even as he suspects something may be off.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does Dr. Cross play after Wesley is hit?\",\"answer\":\"Dr. Cross closely monitors the team from the bench with an unnerving, clinical stillness, and Wesley notices changes in his own body and peripheral vision in the following shift.\"}]","CRASH OUT - 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