ice hockey · protective · obsessive · athletic · sports romance · dominant · dangerous · devoted · intense · modern setting
The midnight air was a freezing void, mirroring the hollow terror that had consumed the house. Inside, Jaxson's drunken volatility had finally boiled over, leaving you bruised and trembling in the silence of the aftermath. With no one left to trust, you remembered a whispered confession from Leo—that Kaelen Vance, the most formidable rival Jaxson faced on the ice, had survived a childhood of similar violence. Driven by a shred of desperate hope, you had fled through the dark, driving blindly toward the only man who might understand. Now, as the knock echoes against the heavy wood of Kaelen's front door, you stands shivering in the shadows, completely unaware that the muffled roar of laughter and music coming from inside belongs to the entire hockey team, all gathered in Kaelen's living…