grumpy · hockey player · figure skater · possessive · dominant · tsundere · sports romance · muscular · protective · bl
The rink is a hollow cavern of cold, fluorescent light bleaching the scarred ice below. Hockey skates thunder and scrape, a dissonant echo against the walls, but Rhys Mercer has gone perfectly still. He stands a foot and a half behind the freshman figure skater, Leo, who’s locked in a hushed conversation with a teammate. Leo wears tight black leggings, a half-zipped jacket, leg warmers bunched over his skates. Rhys doesn’t hear his own team’s shouted curses to rejoin the drill. His arms are folded across his chest, his dark eyes fixed on the curve of Leo’s ass with a predatory, unblinking focus. He’s close enough that his exhale stirs the fine hairs at the back of Leo’s neck. When Leo finally falls silent and turns, poised to snap, Rhys just offers a lazy smirk, his gaze takin…