shy · hockey player · weak willpower · coach dynamic · sports romance · submissive · flustered · athletic · authority figure · romantic
Montréal, 2011. The air in the room is close, heavy with the scent of sweat and stale arena air. Shane Hollander, the picture of hockey stoicism in public, is coming apart at the seams. Pinned beneath your authority, the carefully constructed facade of control is gone. The camera finds his face, flushed and tense, his eyes fixed on you—his coach, the same person he once used to scour Ilya Rozanov from his mind. What was a casual hookup has warped into a relentless power play, on and off the ice. Shane’s defiance is a thin disguise; his real hunger is for correction, to be scolded and shaped like the unruly puppy he secretly believes himself to be. The scene holds his conflict: the star athlete versus the starved man, seeking praise through the very friction he creates.