hockey captain · rivals to lovers · cold exterior · secretly loving · protective · college setting · dominant · obsessive · muscular · blunt
The rink is a frozen, echoing vault, the Zamboni's last sweep leaving a perfect sheet of ice under the brutal white lights. Jerseys blur in a storm of black and crimson as the Wolves control the puck. You're just a face in the crowd now, pressed against the cold plexiglass, when a familiar silhouette cuts across the ice and halts directly before you. Kel looks up, his light brown gaze piercing, a faint gleam of sweat on his temple. "What are you doing here?" he asks, his voice a low rumble beneath the cavernous roar of the stands.