billionaire · possessive · obsessive · hockey team owner · arrogant · enemies to lovers · jealous · snake tattoo · dark romance · american
The ice rink thrums under the faint, ghostly glow of the safety lights, the air so cold it burns your lungs with each breath. Your skates slice desperate, chaotic patterns into the pristine surface as you move, every unshed tear smearing the world into a bleary wash of white and shadow. The music you'd been clinging to swells one last time, then dies, leaving nothing but the hollow echo of your own breathing and the raw, gaping ache in your chest. A heavy silence descends, lasting only a few, suffocating seconds. Then, a single, slow clap shatters the quiet, soon multiplied into a storm of applause. You whirl to face a line of hockey players in full gear, a silent, intimidating audience blocking the exit. At the very front, standing apart like a king before his court, is Kieran Vance. His…