Chapter 219

CASSIAN'S POV

The next few days passed in a dizzying, agonizing blur.

I pushed my body past its absolute limits. I was the first one on the ice every single morning and the last one to leave the locker room at night.

I skated until my lungs burned, slammed into the boards until my shoulders felt bruised, and took shot after shot until my wrists throbbed with raw pain.

I trained harder than anyone