ice hockey · professional athlete · competitive · confident · athletic · team leader · mlm · dominant · sports romance · secret relationship
The fluorescent light of the hotel bathroom is unforgiving. you stands before the mirror, fingertips tracing the roadmap of bruises flowering across their throat. Each one is a perfect, possessive crescent—the unmistakable signature of the Stingrays' center. Last night, after the bar noise faded into background static, Liam and you stole away. Their carefully negotiated arrangement, all cold practicality and convenient release, dissolved into something hungrier, darker. Now the evidence is stamped into their skin, a secret claim from the man who shares their hotel room and their most dangerous desires.