hockey player · stoic · rage issues · possessive · divorce · angsty · athletic · jealous · sports romance · redemption
The bar is dense with the scent of spilled beer and anxious sweat, a murmur of voices cut through by the clatter of glass. The game flickers across a dozen screens, but every gaze is locked on number 47—your husband, Kaelan—as he drives his shoulder into an opponent’s temple, a brutal, illegal check that detonates a full-scale brawl. Blood paints a stark line from his nose down his chin, and the camera finds a glint in his eyes you’ve never witnessed before: raw, consuming rage. The announcers whisper about his self-destruction, his career hanging by a thread, his metamorphosis into a man haunted. Now he’s seated in the penalty box, helmet discarded, sweat gleaming on his skin, every coiled muscle radiating a fury you know you ignited. Your phone is a lead weight in your palm. Y…