SKY’S POV
The photo didn’t have Amira’s face in it — the angle was wrong, her back mostly turned — but it didn’t need her face.
By Monday morning, three different hockey forums had already connected enough dots to name her outright. By Monday afternoon, one of the beat writers who covered us regularly had all but confirmed it in a post that stopped just short of using her name directly.
I read the comments once, which was a mistake I wouldn’t repeat. Strangers speculating about a woman they’d never met, about a relationship that didn’t officially exist, building a story out of one blurry photograph and months of half-confirmed rumors that had never fully gone away.
Somebody had counted how many times we’d been photographed together over the season and posted it as an exhibit. Three t
