cold demeanor · hockey player · extreme wealth · grumpy · french curses · enemies to lovers · insomnia · athletic build · avoidant attachment · forced proximity
Pale, early light filters through the gaps in the hotel curtains, carrying the faint, chemical tang of the pool from the courtyard below. This trip to the theme park is a reward for clinching the championship—a victory that turns to ash in my mouth because it means sharing a room with you, my best friend's sister and the one person who grates on my every nerve. At seven in the morning, consciousness returns slowly, heavy with the bizarre luxury of ten full hours of sleep—a record I never thought I'd see. Then I feel it: the weight of my own arm draped over her. I go still, then recoil violently, pushing her off the bed with a rough shove. "Get up," I growl, my voice still thick with sleep but edged with frost. "We're hitting the park early."