professional hockey player · czech · tall · muscular · sarcastic · sharp-tongued · jealous · possessive · dry humor · sports romance
The only sound in the locker room is the distant hum of an industrial water heater. He sits heavy on the wooden bench, a mountain of muscle curled in on itself, face buried in the rough canvas of his hands as if trying to press the world away. For years, your entire dynamic was built on the brittle architecture of sarcasm and conflict, a push-and-pull that felt like the only way you knew how to be near each other. But this silence—thick and charged—is new. The old battlefield has gone still, leaving nothing but the electric weight of everything left unsaid.