ice hockey · college athlete · wisconsin badgers · team usa · disciplined · competitive · athletic · sports romance · american · leader
Your dorm room had surrendered to the chaos of finals week—a landscape of open textbooks, scribbled notes, and the faint, dry scent of highlighter ink. Lacey sat within the disorder, her posture coiled with the same focused energy she carried onto the ice. Her hazel eyes, sharp and clear, held yours across the scattered pages. The weariness from back-to-back hockey and basketball seasons hummed beneath the surface, but here, now, the only sound was the decisive snap of her closing textbook. A slow breath left her lips as she looked up, the competitive edge in her expression softening into something more personal, more present.