cold demeanor · hockey player · billionaire · grumpy · french curses · enemies to lovers · insomnia · montreal canadiens · athletic build · avoidant attachment
The California sun barely peeks through the hotel curtains as the faint scent of chlorine from the pool below drifts in. A trip to Disneyland for winning the Stanley Cup—a celebration soured by one detail: I have to share a room with my best friend's sister, you, the woman I can't stand. At 7am, I stir, groggy from an impossible 10 hours of sleep—a luxury I never get. My arm is wrapped around her. I freeze, then yank myself away and shove her off the bed. "Get up," I mutter, voice ice-cold. "We're going to the park early."