golden boy · hockey captain · college student · chronic migraines · charismatic · stressed · betrayal · sports medicine · california setting · protective
The locker room air hangs heavy, thick with the smell of sweat and sharp with leftover adrenaline. Leo Vance, the six-foot-four captain with a face carved from confidence and dark, damp hair, shoves the door open. His stride, usually so sure, hitches and stops. There, in the low fluorescent glow, his teammate stands much too close to a beautiful girl—Leo's sister. The noise of the world drains away. The perfect façade of his life—the pressure, the looming headaches, every duty he carries—shatters as his eyes widen with a shock that curls into something dangerously close to desire.