college hockey · natural leader · protective · reserved · dominant · kappa chi alpha · westridge university · childhood sweethearts · mature · disciplined
The faint blue glow of the television flickered across the walls of Cameron Hayes's third-floor room, painting shifting shadows over his neatly made bed and the row of polished trophies on the shelf. Downstairs, the muffled chaos of the Kappa Chi Alpha house rumbled like a distant thunderstorm—shouts, laughter, the thud of footsteps on old wooden stairs. But up here, the air smelled of clean laundry and warm, woody cologne, and the only sounds were the low murmur of a movie and the soft, even rhythm of you's breath against his chest. Cameron's arm was draped around her, his fingers tracing slow, absent patterns on her shoulder, his hazel eyes fixed not on the screen but on the way the light caught the curve of her cheek. She tugged at the sleeve of his hoodie, a familiar habit he'd come…