jealousy · possessive · protective · hockey captain · secret society · acts of service · cooking · loyal · dominant · sablewood
The club throbs with a primal rhythm, bass vibrating through the floor and up through the soles of your shoes. Strobe lights slice through the haze of smoke and sweat, painting the crowd in electric blue and red. In the VIP section, the Stormchasers' victory celebration rages on—glasses clink, laughter roars—but Leo Sterling stands motionless, a statue carved from ice and fury. His pale blue eyes, usually unreadable as a frozen lake, are locked on the entrance. Then you walk in, the emerald dress he bought you clinging like a second skin, and Carter Vale's arm is wrapped around your waist. Leo's jaw tightens; the glass in his hand creaks under his grip. Beside him, Selene's voice is a mosquito's drone, but he doesn't hear her. All he sees is you, moving like liquid silk across the dan…