365 Days With The Hockey Player I Hate
21 years old Soraya Rivera has spent her entire life fighting for everything she has.
A full scholarship is her only ticket to a better future, and with her father's mounting medical bills threatening to bury her family, failure isn't an option. So when a heated confrontation at a nightclub turns into a public scandal, she's one mistake away from losing everything she's worked for.
Declan Shaw has his own future on the line.
At twenty-five, he's hockey's golden boy the league's favorite player and captain of the ice. But after one reckless night involving Soraya, lands him in trouble with sponsors and team management, he's given an impossible ultimatum: clean up his image or kiss his career goodbye.
The solution?
A legally binding marriage.
For 365 days.
One year of pretending they're happily in love.
One year of living together, smiling for cameras, and convincing the world their relationship is real.
If they fail, Declan loses the career he's sacrificed everything for.
If Soraya refuses, she loses her scholarship and the chance to help save her father.
The rules should be simple: no feelings, no complications, and absolutely no falling in love.
But when hatred starts feeling dangerously close to attraction, and every stolen glance blurs the line between fake and real, Soraya and Declan discover that surviving 365 days together may be the easiest part.
Because the biggest risk isn't losing everything.
It's losing their hearts to the one person they swore they'd never love.
อ่าน
Chapter: Chapter 63 - Gruesome Act~~~Soraya~~~Physical therapy started that morning, my first real session since the surgery, and it turned out to be its own particular kind of misery. The therapist had me doing small, careful movements with my leg, nothing dramatic, but every single one of them ached in a way that made me grit my teeth and stare hard at the ceiling until it passed."You're doing great," she said, adjusting the angle of my knee slightly. "Better range of motion than I expected this early.""Feels like the opposite of great," I muttered, and she laughed, unbothered, clearly used to patients who complained through every single rep.Maya sat in the corner the entire session, scrolling through something on her phone, occasionally looking up to wince sympathetically whenever I made a particularly pained noise. Caleb showed up halfway through with coffee for both of them, setting Maya's down on the little table beside her without a word, the way he'd started doing so often now that it barely registered as a
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Chapter: Chapter 62 - Back to Base~~~Soraya~~~They discharged me on a Thursday, two weeks after the fall, my leg still heavy and unfamiliar in a fresh cast, crutches propped awkwardly under my arms like foreign objects I hadn't quite learned to trust yet.Declan carried my bag out to the car himself, refusing every offer of help from Maya like it might somehow undo whatever quiet promise he'd made to himself about taking care of me properly this time. The late afternoon sun felt strange against my skin after so many days under fluorescent hospital lighting, warm and real in a way that made the whole world feel slightly unfamiliar, like I was stepping back into a life I'd left months ago instead of just under two weeks."You okay?" Declan asked, glancing over at me in the passenger seat, one hand still resting lightly on my knee, this has become so natural for him to do."I think so." I watched the hospital shrink in the side mirror as we pulled away.“It's strange. I spent so many days wanting to leave that place, and
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Chapter: Chapter 61 - Fourteen Days~~~Soraya~~~It's been seven days since Declan's father came, and Declan hasn't left my side once.He booked a suite at the hotel two blocks from the hospital, fourteen days, paid up front, like he'd already decided before he even checked in that he wasn't going anywhere until I was steady enough to stand on my own two feet again. He shows up every morning before visiting hours technically start, some arrangement with the nurses I'm fairly sure involves an unreasonable amount of charm, and he doesn't leave until they physically make him.Today he brought coffee from the place down the street, the good kind, not the hospital sludge that's been keeping Maya alive on caffeine fumes for over a week now. He set it on my tray table and dropped into the chair beside my bed like it was the most natural thing in the world, like this had always been our routine and not something we'd rebuilt out of six weeks of silence and a hospital room full of grief."You look better today," he said, studyin
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Chapter: Chapter 60 - Behind the curtain~~~Soraya~~~Declan didn't answer the call.He stared at the screen until it stopped ringing on its own, his thumb hovering over the red button the whole time like even rejecting the call required more courage than he currently had left in him. The silence that followed felt worse than the ringing had."Declan." My voice came out smaller than I wanted it to. "Talk to me.""He knows I'm here." He set the phone face-down on the side table, his hand not quite steady. "He wouldn't be calling otherwise. He never calls just to check in."I didn't get the chance to ask what that meant, because thirty seconds later, the door to my room opened without a knock.I recognized him instantly, and my stomach dropped straight through the floor. The last time I'd seen that face, he was in our penthouse dining area, standing there like he built the house. He looked exactly the same now as he had that morning same jaw, same broad shoulders, the same easy, practiced calm that had never once looked like
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Chapter: Chapter 59 - Back to myself~~~Soraya~~~I woke up slowly, the world arriving in pieces before it arrived whole. The low hum of the room first, then the dull, distant ache low in my abdomen, then the heavier, more familiar throb in my leg, and finally, underneath all of it, a strange hollowness I couldn't quite place until the memory of the pain came rushing back and settled where it belonged.The pregnancy. The pain. The doctor's face right before everything went dark under anesthesia.I opened my eyes to dim light and Declan's face, closer than I expected, his hand already wrapped around mine like it had never actually left, even though some distant part of me remembered them pulling him out of the room hours ago."Soraya." His voice was rough, exhausted, his eyes red rimmed in a way that told me he hadn't slept at all. "You're awake. How are you feeling?""Empty," I said, before I could think of a gentler word, my voice cracking on the single syllable. "I feel empty."Something in his face crumpled at that,
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Chapter: Chapter 58 - Bad News~~~Declan~~~The doctor led us into a small consultation room off the main hallway, the kind of space clearly designed for exactly this purpose. soft chairs, a box of tissues sitting a little too deliberately on the low table between us, the fluorescent lights dimmed just enough to feel gentler than the rest of the hospital."First off. Soraya's stable," the doctor began, sitting across from the three of us. "I want to lead with that, because I know what I'm about to explain is going to be difficult to hear. The surgery went well. She's out of immediate danger.""Oh-kaay?" Maya said quietly, her hands twisted together in her lap."But," the doctor continued gently,"The pregnancy was ectopic. That means it implanted outside the uterus, in this case in one of her fallopian tubes, rather than where it should have. Ectopic pregnancies are never viable, and they become dangerous very quickly once the tube can no longer stretch to accommodate the growth. That's what caused the internal bl
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Chapter: Chapter 35~~~Asia's POV~~~By the time I got downstairs, George was still there.Which surprised me.Not because he was waiting.Because he looked like he hadn't moved.The lobby bustled around him in the usual afternoon chaos. Employees came and went through the revolving doors. Phones rang behind reception. Security greeted visitors. Yet George stood near one of the large windows overlooking the street, hands shoved into his pockets, staring outside like he'd forgotten where he was.For a moment, I simply watched him.The bouquet was over, at least.Thank God.Small victories.I walked toward him, my heels clicking softly against the polished floor."George."He turned immediately.Something crossed his face.Relief maybe.Gone too quickly for me to be sure."Hey."I stopped beside him.The city stretched beyond the glass behind us, traffic moving steadily through the afternoon while sunlight reflected off nearby buildings.Neither of us spoke right away.The silence wasn't uncomfortable exac
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Chapter: Chapter 34Eden's POV"Do you think people can care about someone and still make them feel trapped?"The question followed me all the way back to my office.I shut the door behind me and dropped the Henderson file onto my desk.Then stood there.Staring at absolutely nothing.Because somehow, after everything that had happened over the past few weeks, that single question was the one thing I couldn't stop thinking about.I loosened my tie slightly and sank into my chair.First I walk into her office and find her husband standing beside her desk with enough flowers to supply a wedding venue.Then five minutes later she's asking me if someone can care about a person and still make them feel trapped.The timing wasn't exactly subtle.I leaned back slowly.Maybe she was talking about George.Maybe.But another possibility had been irritating me ever since I left her office.What if she meant me?The thought settled heavily in my chest.Because if I was being honest with myself.and I generally hated
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Chapter: Chapter 33Asia's POVThe second George walked around my desk, I knew I was in trouble.Not actual trouble.The complicated kind.The kind that made guilt settle heavily in your stomach because someone was trying to be kind and all you wanted was space."You don't have to carry everything yourself."His hand rested lightly against my shoulder.Friendly and supportive gesture.I guess?At least it should have felt normal.Instead, my entire body went strangely stiff. I hated that because George wasn't doing anything wrong.Not really.He wasn't grabbing me.Wasn't yelling.Wasn't demanding anything.Yet lately every interaction felt loaded with something neither of us was saying out loud.I opened my mouth, trying to find a response that wouldn't hurt his feelings.Trying to find a way to explain that gratitude and affection weren't the same thing.That just because he'd helped me didn't mean I belonged to him.But before I could say anything the office door opened.Neither of us looked immediate
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Chapter: Chapter 32Asia's POVTWO DAYS AFTER PARISBy ten o'clock, I had already regretted coming back to work.Not because of the workload.I loved work.Work made sense.Numbers made sense.But somehow, I was still overwhelmed with everything that has happened and what led me to this job in the first place.I stared at the quarterly reports on my screen while accomplishing absolutely nothing.The cursor blinked at me, mocking me.Twenty five emails remained unanswered.Two meetings sat on my calendar.And I'd reread the same paragraph six times without absorbing a single word.Pathetic.A knock sounded against my office door."Come in."The door opened.Sarah, one of the assistants, stepped inside carrying a folder."Good morning." I smiledShe hesitated. “Good morning.”That sounded forced.I wasn't prepared for the next thing Sarah was about to say"There's a man asking to see you."A man?Please don't be"George, he said his name is George."“Your husband.” Her eyes narrowed.I brought my head down
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Chapter: Chapter 31 Asia's POVThe hospital smelled like antiseptic and exhaustion.I hated hospitals.Always had.Maybe because every hallway felt heavy with bad news.Maybe because hope and heartbreak seemed to live side by side inside these walls.Or maybe because right now my mother was sleeping behind one of those doors, and every time I looked at her, I felt guilty for not finding her sooner.The doctors had reassured me three separate times.She was dehydrated.Exhausted.Malnourished.But alive.Very much alive.The word still didn't feel real.I sat beside her bed and watched her sleep, tears burning behind my eyes for what felt like the hundredth time today.A knock sounded softly against the door.I already knew who it was.Eden.My stomach immediately did something ridiculous.I hated that.The door opened slowly.He stepped inside carrying two coffees.How sweet. The man solved every problem like it was a business transaction.I almost smiled.Almost."How is she?" His bass tone sent chills
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Chapter: Chapter 30Asia's POVBy the time I arrived at the location, my heart felt like it was trying to hammer its way through my ribs. Each beat was a brutal reminder that I was alone.Truly alone. In the belly of whatever nightmare waited for me.The abandoned warehouse crouched near the river like a dying beast, half-swallowed by shadows and flanked by rusted shipping containers that leaned against each other like drunks. Graffiti scarred the corrugated walls in faded, angry slashes. Broken glass glittered faintly under the weak security lights that still somehow worked. This was the kind of place people avoided even in daylight. The kind of place chosen on purpose because screams here would drown in the wind and the rush of the Seine.The sky had already surrendered to night. Heavy, low hanging clouds pressed down on Paris, pregnant with rain that hadn’t yet decided to fall. A cold wind whipped across the empty lot, carrying the metallic tang of rust, river rot, and distant diesel. I pulled my coat
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