
ICED RHYTHMS: Marked By The Hockey Alpha's obsession
She gave him five years of her life.
Her education. Her passion. Her family name. Everything she had and everything she was — laid down piece by piece at the altar of a man and his ambitions, because she loved him and she believed in them.
But the moment he reached the top, he discarded her without a second glance and proposed to another woman on international live television.
So Mia did the only reasonable thing a heartbroken, furious woman could do.
She found a bar. She found a stranger. She found her way into a hotel room and completely out of her mind for one reckless, consequence-free night.
Then he tried to pay her afterward.
She paid him back. Every bill. Then she slapped him clean across the face and walked out without looking back.
She thought that was the end of it.
It wasn't even close.
Because the stranger she spent the night with turned out to be Cole Ashford — new captain of the Chicago Vortex, the most infuriating man she had ever encountered, and the person sitting behind the interview table when she walked in the very next morning with her whole future on the line.
He wants her. He said so plainly, across a professional table, without a single apology for the honesty of it.
She told him exactly where he could put that.
But Cole Ashford is not a man who lets go of what he wants. And somewhere between the fury and the history and the secret she has spent years running from, Mia is beginning to wonder if the universe placed him in her path for a reason.
Or if she is simply foolish enough to make the same mistake twice.
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Chapter: ༆ 04 - Audacity On Sale.Two seconds.I gave myself exactly two seconds of pure, silent, internal collapse.Two seconds of everything instantly going white, and the only coherent thought available in my mind was: you have got to be kidding me.Two seconds before I picked up every scattered piece of my composure, arranged them back, walked to the chair across from him, and sat down.I set my bag beside my feet. Folded my hands on the table. Looked at him directly, and kept my face as neutral as possible.“Mia Caldwell,” I said. “I’m here for the lead dancer position.”“Mia. What a beautiful name for a beautiful girl.”“Thank you, sir. Can we get started?”He held my gaze for one beat longer than necessary—just long enough for me to feel it—and then he opened the folder in front of him and the interview began.He was good at it.That was the irritating thing.There was nothing I could point to, no moment where professionalism slipped enough to give me something to be openly offended by.He asked about my backgr
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Chapter: ༆ 003 - Well Hello!The apartment was dark when I pushed the door open, which lasted exactly two seconds before every light snapped on and Natalie materialized from the hallway like she had been stationed there for hours.Which, knowing Nat, she probably had.“Where the hell have you been?”I opened my mouth.“No—” She held up a finger. “Do you have any idea how worried I was? I called you so many times, Mia. I was this close to calling the police.”“I’m sorry,” I said quietly. “I just needed to blow off some steam.”She stopped. Her eyes dropped—traveling the full length of me slowly, and back up—and her expression shifted.“Blow off some steam.” Her voice was flat. “Mia. You reek of alcohol. And you look freshly fucked.”I groaned and walked to the couch, throwing myself on it.“I’ve also got a headache that wants to split my skull in two.”Nat followed, dropping beside me. “What have you been up to? What happened tonight?”“I might have just had the most humiliating night of my life,” I said.She sat
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Chapter: ༆ 002 - Fuck You, Bastard!!“Another one?”I looked at the bartender and pushed my glass forward.“Please.”He didn’t ask what was wrong or try to chitchat or worse…advise me about the number of drinks I’ve had that night, and I appreciated that about him.The bar was throbbing with music that swallowed conversations, a very vibrant and energetic crowd dancing together.Everyone was just living their lives, screaming in excitement…while my own life was crashing and shattering in pieces.It was like the universe was simply moving on with zero care of the despair I was in.I’d walked in forty minutes ago, taken the first empty stool I found.I took a long pull of my drink and let that sit.Not just a waitress. I wonder how long he had looked at me that way. How long he had looked at me and seen nothing but a waitress.I wonder how long I had ceased being someone he loved…and became just a waitress.Or had he never loved me?Was I just some desperate chick who loved him so much that she was willing to give up every
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Chapter: ༆ 001 - Before The Fall༆ 𝐌𝐈𝐀༺༺༒༻༻"Mia!! Mia!! Where the fuck are you? Get your ass in here right now — it's starting, it's starting!!"I nearly broke the frame in my haste to rush to the sitting room."Jesus Christ, Nat." I steadied the glass against my chest, orange juice sloshing dangerously close to the rim. "I was gone for forty seconds. I went to the kitchen.""Forty seconds too long!" She was already patting the cushion beside her, eyes glued to the screen, practically bouncing. "Come, come, come — they're doing the introduction segment."I sat, tucked my feet under me and pretended my heart wasn't already trying to pound its way out of my chest.Nat turned to me with that grin. "Do you think he's going to call your name? Like actually say it, on camera, in front of everybody?" She pressed her hands together. "Oh God, how romantic would that be, right? After everything — imagine.""Today is not about me." I kept my eyes on the screen. "Today is Frank's day. His win, his moment. Whether he mention
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A Taste Of My Brothers Bestfriend
“Elara.” Her name was a warning, a plea as she turned in his arms. “Your brothers—”
“Aren’t here.” She reached up, and his sharp inhale of breath as her fingertips grazed the sharp line of his jaw made her smile, “It’s just us both tonight.”
She saw the moment the last thread of control he was holding onto snapped, and the next moment he was sliding his hand into her hair, pulling her closer before his lips crashed against hers with a force that stole her breath.
Her brothers would probably kill him if they found their sister tangled up with their friends but she didn’t care.
Just tonight - she would unapologetically take the one thing her body has been yearning for.
🌸🌸🌸🌸
He was her fated mate. Her brothers’ best friend. And absolutely forbidden.
One accidental murder shattered Elara’s human life and revealed the truth, and awakened a truth buried in her blood for nineteen years.
She is no ordinary girl.
She's a werewolf princess with a kingdom to reclaim and a dangerously attractive beta who makes her wolf sing….literally.
But Thorne is off-limits: her overprotective brothers would exile or kill him for touching her, yet the pull between them is undeniable, primal and intoxicating leading to stolen glances and of course stolen nights of pleasure.
As if surviving her awakening and being placed with the burden of saving a kingdom wasn’t hard enough, Elara discovers a darker threat:
An aunt who wants her dead.
Now she must navigate her new identity, fight for her throne and resist a forbidden bond that could either save her…
Or destroy her.
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Chapter: CHAPTER SEVENTEENTHORNE'S POVMy brother laughed—a sound that made my skin crawl because it sounded exactly like mine."Kidnapping the queen might not have been part of the original plan," he said, still grinning. "But it's so much more fun this way, don't you think? The Mistress decided a little improvisation was in order.""You're insane." I kept my voice low, aware that anyone could walk past my door. "Do you have any idea what you've done? They're mobilizing the entire pack—""To search for their precious queen. I know." He examined his nails casually. "It was almost too easy, really. Following the main guards, staying close to her. And do you know the best part?" He looked up, his eyes—my eyes—gleaming with malicious amusement. "They all thought I was you. That's the perk of being identical twin brothers, isn't it?"My blood ran cold. "They saw you. With the queen.""They saw Thorne Blackwood, loyal Beta, doing his job." He shrugged. "No one questions the Beta when he's escorting the queen to her
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Chapter: CHAPTER SIXTEEN [Thorne’s POV] ***I couldn’t stop pacing.Back and forth across my room like a caged animal. My wolf was clawing at my insides, demanding I do something, fix this, protect my pack.I’d failed.I had fucking failed to protect my queen. Failed to do the one job I’d been entrusted with since becoming Beta.And now Aiden and Liam were facing the unthinkable—their mother, taken. Possibly hurt, or possibly worse.My hands clenched into fists so tight my nails drew blood.But what broke my heart the most was the image of Elara’s face that was stuck in my head.The terror in her eyes when I’d told her. The way her entire body had started shaking, like she was coming apart at the seams. The broken sound she’d made before her brothers had rushed her out of the hall.My chest squeezed painfully.My mate was in agony, and I couldn’t comfort her. Couldn’t pull her into my arms and tell her we’d fix this, that everything would be okay. Couldn’t do anything except stand there like a useless fuckin
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Chapter: CHAPTTER FIFTEENHours later, the tension from this morning had settled into something manageable.My mother was still quiet. Still holding that ring Tom had given her like it might disappear if she let go. But she’d helped me get ready, had fixed my hair when my hands wouldn’t stop shaking, had told me I looked beautiful.We weren’t okay. Not yet. But we would be.Now I stood at the entrance to the main hall with Aiden on my right, Liam on my left, and Thorne a few steps behind, maintaining his annoying professional distance.Looking at his tight face, his blank and cold expression as he marched down the hall with us, it was hard to believe it was those same eyes that had looked at me with such heated intensity, that had made my entire body burn this morning.“Ready?” Aiden asked.I smoothed down the royal blue gown one more time. “As I’ll ever be.”The doors opened, and the hundreds of voices rising in a cheer caught me off guard… only for a second.Before I took in the sight, and I could not stop t
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Chapter: CHAPTER FOURTEENI couldn’t breathe.Trying to fill my lungs with air was proving to be an impossible task, because my chest and throat were too tight as I locked the door behind me.My whole life, every single piece of it had been nothing but intentional lies stacked on top of each other until I didn’t even know what was real anymore.Tom and Sarah. The two people I’d trusted most in this world were nothing but liars.Fucking liars.And because of their lies—because they’d hidden the truth, suppressed my wolf, kept me in the dark about what I was—I’d killed someone.Theo was dead because I hadn’t known. Because the shift had hit me without warning, without control, without any fucking clue what was happening to my body.If they’d just told me. If they’d just been honest instead of playing house and pretending I was their normal human daughter—A sob tore out of my throat.My hands were shaking. No—my whole body was shaking. The rage was building again, that same burning heat that had consumed me in t
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Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTEEN“My queen?” I glanced at my brothers but the confusion I was feeling also reflected on their faces. “What’s going on? How do you know each other?”My mother hadn’t moved. She stood frozen in the doorway, staring at Tom and Sarah like she’d seen ghosts.“They were servants here,” she said finally, and her voice was hollow. “In the palace. Until they disappeared nineteen years ago without a word.”My stomach dropped.“Wait…” I looked between them. “You worked here? You knew about—about all of this? About what I am?”Sarah’s face crumpled. “Sweetie—”“How?” My mother’s voice cut through the room like a blade. She moved forward, and suddenly she wasn’t the gentle woman who’d been touching my hair and calling me darling. Rage burned in her eyes as she glared at the couple. “How is it fucking possible that you’ve had my daughter for nineteen years and never once thought to tell us she was alive?”“We couldn’t…” Tom started.“Couldn’t?” Her voice rose. “My daughter was stolen from her crib.
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Chapter: CHAPTER TWELVEIt was already sunrise but I was finding it hard dragging myself out of bed until a sharp and loud knock came at my door and I jerked up immediately, instantly on alert.For a second I thought it was a dream—another one of those where Thorne showed up at my window and I had to watch him leave again.But the knock came again, clearly letting me know that it was real.Real. Persistent.I stumbled out of bed with a groan, walked to the door, and yanked it open.Thorne stood there, his hand raised to knock again. His eyes met mine, then dropped.And widened.His gaze traveled from my face down to my chest, and I watched his jaw clench. Watched his pupils dilate as something dark and hungry flashed across his expression.That’s when I remembered what I was wearing.The silk robe I’d thrown on last night—pale pink, barely covering anything—had come loose while I slept. The front gaped open, exposing the curve of my breast, the lace edge of my underwear visible where the fabric had shifted.
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Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY TWOI stared at them, my mind reeling.“What?” The word came out strangled. “How—how the hell do you know?”My father—Kamari 2’s father—leaned back in his chair, his expression calm. Too calm for someone who’d just revealed they knew about dimensional travel.“I’m a scientist, Kamari. Well, a physicist, to be specific.” He gestured to the shelves lined with technical journals and equipment I’d assumed were just decorative. “I’ve been obsessed with quantum mechanics and dimensional theory for most of my career. Parallel universes, alternate realities—it’s been my life’s work.”“Okay, but that doesn’t explain how you knew about me.”“I developed something years ago. A detection system.” He pulled out what looked like a tablet from his desk drawer. “It monitors dimensional frequencies, alerts me when there’s a breach—when someone from another dimension crosses into ours.”My stomach dropped. “You’ve had this the whole time?”“The alert went off the day you arrived.” He tapped the screen, sho
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Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY ONEI stared at the text message with a frown, trying to decipher what might be going on.MUM: Can you come over tomorrow, baby?Was something wrong? Maybe they wanted to invite me to another party? Or perhaps they needed help with something?The guilt that had been sitting in my chest since I’d first met them flared up again. These were good people. Kind people. They didn’t deserve to be lied to.And suddenly, I made a decision.I would tell them the truth. Tomorrow, when I went over there, I’d explain everything—that I wasn’t really their daughter, that their real Kamari was safe in another dimension, that this whole situation was temporary.They deserved to know.Even if it meant losing the only functional family relationship I’d had in fifteen years.🪷🪷🪷The next day, I took a cab to the mansion.The gate guard waved me through without question, and I walked up the long driveway, rehearsing what I was going to say in my head.Hi, so you know how I’ve been acting different lately? W
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Chapter: CHAPTER FORTYThe next day, I found myself at the coffee shop again.It was becoming a habit—this little place tucked between two office buildings with its mismatched furniture and baristas who actually knew how to make a decent cup. The coffee here was quickly becoming my favorite thing about this dimension.We didn’t have coffee back home. At least, not like this. Nothing that smelled this good or tasted this rich or made me feel almost human again after a sleepless night.I was standing at the counter, rattling off my usual order, when someone called out behind me.“Kamari? Oh my God, Kamari!”I turned around slowly, my hand instinctively moving toward the concealed knife at my hip.A pregnant woman was beaming at me from near the door—very pregnant, probably seven or eight months along, with curly brown hair and a smile that looked genuinely excited.I had no idea who she was.“It’s been so long!” She waddled toward me, one hand on her swollen belly. “I can’t believe I ran into you here! How ar
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Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY NINE[Kamari’s POV]I woke to the sound of a muffled scream.My body went rigid instantly, my hand reaching for the dagger I’d left on the nightstand, before I realized the sound had come from beside me.Enzo.He was still asleep, but his body was tense, his face twisted in agony. Sweat beaded on his forehead, and his hands were clenched into fists so tight his knuckles had gone white.“Jessica,” he whispered, his voice broken. “Jessica, no. Please, I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. Jessica—”My chest tightened.I reached out and touched his shoulder gently. “Enzo. Hey, it’s okay. It’s just a dream.”He jerked awake with a gasp, his eyes wild and unfocused. For a moment, he looked at me like he didn’t recognize me, like he was still trapped in whatever nightmare had been tormenting him.“It’s me,” I said softly. “It’s Kamari. You’re safe.”Recognition slowly filtered into his expression, and he pressed the heels of his palms against his eyes, his breathing still ragged.“I’m sorry,” he said, his vo
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Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHTThe kiss started slow. Tentative. Unsure.I stood frozen, not knowing what to do, if I should return it. Trying to hang on to the little ounce of control I had left, to fight against what my body wanted, what my heart was screaming for.I knew I shouldn’t be doing this. Knew I should push him away, maintain the distance I’d worked so hard to create between us.But the moment he parted my lips with his tongue, all logical thought left my head.A sound escaped my throat—half gasp, half moan—and then I was kissing him back with a desperation that scared me. My hands fisted in his shirt, pulling him closer, and all the reasons we shouldn’t be doing this just evaporated.The mating heat roared to life between us, and this time I didn’t even try to fight it.“Enzo,” I breathed against his mouth. “We shouldn’t—”“I know.” He kissed me again, deeper this time. “But I can’t stop. Tell me to stop and I will, but…”He cupped my breast and I moaned, “Don’t stop.”He lifted me carefully—too carefu
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Chapter: CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN[Enzo's POV]The past twenty-four hours had been hell.And I'd been to hell before—literally walked through fire and bloodshed more times than I could count—but nothing compared to this.The fucking mating heat was consuming me alive.I'd jerked off so many times in the past day that I'd lost count. In the shower. In my bed. At my desk. Against the wall of my office when the need became too overwhelming to ignore.But it didn't help. Nothing helped.Every time I came, the relief lasted maybe ten minutes before the fire started building again. Hotter. More insistent. More unbearable.I wanted her. Burned for her. Ached for her in ways that made me want to tear my own skin off just to feel something different.But I wouldn't approach her.Couldn't approach her.She was right about everything she'd said. This whole mess—the failed mission, her inability to focus, Lance still being in Edgar's clutches—it was all because of me and this damned curse.If I had never waltzed into her life,
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