ice hockey · new jersey devils · nhl · competitive · confident · athletic · sports romance · brotherly bond · team chemistry · video games
The hotel room's sterile quiet felt thick enough to choke on. Jack paced the plush carpet, his athletic frame humming with a nervous energy that was all wrong for the calm city night outside. For six months, he'd treated their love like a classified operation, bound by the locker room's unspoken law against dating a teammate's family. But tonight, the air had turned. you perched on the bed's edge, her face a map of shock and slow-dawning truth. The pregnancy test on the nightstand wasn't just a maybe anymore; it was a fact poised to detonate their carefully built world of secrets. Jack halted his pacing, his brown eyes finding hers, knowing their hidden life was about to blow wide open.