Unsteady (The Undone #1)

Unsteady (The Undone #1)

Author: Peyton Corinne Listening Length: 11h 57m

During last year’s Frozen Four, the Waterfell University hockey captain, and NHL legacy, took a brutal hit that left him with a concussion and a new discomfort on the ice. Plagued by nightmares and panic attacks every time he attempts to skate, Rhys wonders if he’ll ever play again — if he’ll ever want to. Sadie Br...

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It’s been three weeks of this routine, getting my feet under me again sans panic attacks while tying my skates. Two weeks of waking to the promise of seeing Sadie settling my stomach, skating to her eclectic music taste that swings from Steely Dan to Ethel Cain to Harry Styles in the same hour.

By now, I feel as though I can read her mood by the song she first selects.

I can tell she’s in need of settling when she plays Phoebe Bridgers, or that she’s desperate for a fast dancing skate when she blares Two Door Cinema Club and MGMT back-to-back, usually smiling from endorphins as she freestyles across her side of the ice.

But sometimes, she starts Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car.” Those days, she usually doesn’t speak to me—only stares at me on our way in with eyes that look half full of tears.