Keira
Ryder reached me first, still in full gear, sweat-soaked and breathless, pulling me into an embrace so fierce it nearly lifted me off my feet. "It's over," he said against my hair, relief and joy tangled together in his voice. "He's gone, and we won. Both things, finally, at the same time."
"I know." I laughed, the sound thick with tears, clutching him tightly. "I saw the goal. I barely registered it happening, but I saw it."
The rest of them arrived in a rush moments later, and the family section dissolved into a chaotic, joyful tangle of celebration, Mason lifting me clean off the ground in an embrace that startled a laugh out of both of us, Jaxon whooping loud enough to draw amused glances from nearby fans, Noah's usual quiet composure cracking into something openly emotional a
