Lusting After My Brother's Best friend
Synopsis
She spent years hiding how she felt about the one guy she could never have…
until college turns the untouchable hockey captain into the only person who can either destroy her or claim her.
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Sloane Harper has loved Noah Brooks in secret for as long as she can remember.
He’s her older brother’s best friend, the golden captain of the university’s hockey team, and the one rule every guy on campus knows better than to break.
To Noah, Sloane was always just “Harper’s little sister” — off-limits, invisible, safe.
He built his entire reputation on one unbreakable rule: never touch the sister of the only person he trusts.
But freshman year changes the game.
Sloane walks onto campus sharper, bolder, and impossible to overlook. Every time Noah sees her in the stands, in the halls, or waiting after practice, that rule starts cracking.
What used to feel like loyalty now feels like the one thing he’s no longer strong enough to fight.
Because the real problem isn’t that he wants her.
It’s that he’s starting to need her more than the team, more than the rule, more than his best friend’s trust.
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Chapter: 005Chapter 5SLOANEI spent years imagining what it would feel like if Noah Brooks looked at me the way he looks at everyone else.What happened last night was never part of that fantasy.In my head it was always simple. He would finally see me, realize I wasn’t a little girl anymore, and everything would fall into place. Reality is heavier. It’s a pounding heart, wet pavement, and the terrifying knowledge that the line between us didn’t just blur—it cracked wide open.I stare blankly at my laptop. I’ve been trying to read the same paragraph of the psychology syllabus for forty-five minutes.It’s useless. Every time I close my eyes I’m back under that concrete awning. I can still feel the burning print of his hand on my waist. I can still see the dark intensity in his eyes when his gaze dropped to my mouth.You’re imagining things, I tell myself, aggressively clicking a random link just to move. You’re reading way too much into it. He was just catching you. He was being nice. He’s Kai’s
Última actualización: 2026-08-19
Chapter: 004Chapter 4 NOAHThe first rule was simple: Don’t look at Kai Harper’s sister the way other guys do.It was a boundary I’d set years ago, a line carved in stone. Kai was my brother, my teammate, the guy who had my back when the hits got brutal. You don’t cross that line. You don’t even let yourself think about it.But sitting at my desk in our off-campus suite, staring at a playbook while rain taps against the glass, the rule feels less like a boundary and more like a cage.“Brooks! Coach wants the power-play edits by tomorrow morning,” Kai yells from the kitchen over the blender as he mixes another massive protein shake.“I’m on it,” I call back, rubbing my eyes.The pressure this semester is unreal. The NHL draft is months away, and every game is an audition. Coach Daniels reminds me daily that one bad hit, one scandal, one slip in focus could tank my stock. Scouts are everywhere, watching how I lead, how I practice, how I breathe. My future depends on staying locked in. No distrac
Última actualización: 2026-08-19
Chapter: 003Chapter 3SLOANEThe easiest way to stop loving someone is to stay away from them.Too bad the universe (and the Maplewood housing department) had other ideas.“I’m going to drop this,” I gasp, arms shaking as I balance a massive cardboard box labeled BOOKS / HEAVY AF against my chin. “Zoe, get the door. Please tell me the key card is ready.”“Got it, got it.” Zoe frantically swipes her ID. The glass door of Alder Hall beeps and clicks open. I stumble into the air-conditioned lobby and dump the box onto a plastic bench with a pathetic groan. Red lines are carved into my palms. My messy bun is collapsing. I’m sweating through a gray tank top.Still, a small spark of excitement cuts through the exhaustion.Classes start tomorrow. Campus is alive—students hauling mini-fridges and giant blue bags across the lawns. This morning felt like the official start of my new life. A reinvention. No more hiding in the shadows. No more losing sleep over the boy who caught my wrist on a dark porch two
Última actualización: 2026-08-19
Chapter: 002Chapter 2 SLOANEI shouldn’t care that he remembered my name. I definitely shouldn’t still be hearing those six words on loop.*When did you get here, Sloane?*That’s all it was. Six words in a hallway. Yet my brain has played the low, rough sound of Noah’s voice a thousand times while I unpack boxes and pretend I’m fine.“Earth to Sloane.” Zoe snaps her fingers in front of my face. She’s cross-legged on her unmade bed, buried in throw pillows. “Are you hanging those fairy lights or just staring at the wall like a loading screen?”“Hanging them,” I mutter, forcing myself to move.I stretch up on my toes and pin the string lights to the wall. Outside our window, move-in weekend is pure chaos—car trunks slamming, parents crying, freshmen trying way too hard to look like they belong. This is supposed to be my clean slate. My chance to stop being the quiet girl who spent years nursing an impossible crush on her brother’s best friend.I shove a thumbtack into the drywall harder than nec
Última actualización: 2026-08-19
Chapter: 001Chapter 1 SLOANE“You’re staring again,” Zoe says next to me as the entire arena explodes.I force my eyes off the ice. My roommate is draped over the railing in an oversized Wolves jersey, blue glitter streaked across her cheeks like war paint.“I’m watching the game,” I lie. The noise is so loud I have to lean closer. “My brother’s out there.”Zoe takes a slow sip of her drink and raises an eyebrow. “Your brother is number forty-four, currently arguing with the ref. Your eyes have been locked on number nine since the opening face-off. The one who just scored the game-tying goal.”I don’t answer. She’s right.The Wolves Den is packed wall to wall for a preseason game that somehow feels like a championship. Cold rink air mixes with popcorn and pure college chaos. Everyone is screaming the same name.Brooks. Brooks. Brooks.Noah Brooks. Team captain. First-line center. The guy who looks like he was built for the NHL instead of a college rink in Vermont.And the secret I’ve carried for
Última actualización: 2026-08-19
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