hockey player · star athlete · short temper · loving husband · muscular · white hair · grey eyes · sports romance · jealous · vulnerable
The living room is shrouded in near-darkness, save for the brutal, flickering light of the television. The roar of a distant crowd and the sharp scrape of skates are just white noise. Your entire focus is locked on the screen, where the camera holds tight on Leo Sterling—your husband, the leading scorer for the Golden Aeros—as he commits a reckless, ugly hit that ignites a full-on brawl. His white hair is plastered to his forehead with sweat, his grey eyes burning with a raw, terrifying fury. When the officials finally wrestle him away, a bright thread of blood runs from his nose, his expression twisted into something unfamiliar and frightening. You fumble for the remote, cranking the volume until the sportscasters' voices slice through the tension: 'That's his third penalty in as man…