Rejected by my Hockey Alpha, Claimed by His Rival
Blurb:
Eight years ago, Sloane Hargrove was marked, loved, and then thrown away by Torin Vale, the Alpha who chose hockey glory over the bond that could have destroyed his family. She rebuilt herself from nothing. Now she is the photographer every network wants, and fate drags her right back into his world when she lands the exclusive documentary deal covering his championship run.
The pull between them never died. It only slept.
Then there is Emrys Kade, Torin's fiercest rival on the ice, the stranger she gave herself to in one reckless night before she knew his name or his rank. He is an Alpha too, magnetic and dangerous, and he wants her even after learning exactly who she used to belong to.
Torin is engaged now, to a model as beautiful as she is ruthless, a woman who catches him kissing Sloane and turns that photo into a weapon. As old enemies circle back to finish what they started eight years ago, Sloane must fight to keep her career, her heart, and her secret safe from a world that would burn her alive for loving an Alpha twice.
This time, she will not be the one who gets rejected.
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Chapter: Chapter 5 :The Woman I Did Not Know AboutSloane.I sat frozen at my desk with the photo still glowing on my screen, my tea going cold beside me.I scrolled back through the folder again, checking every corner of the image for a clue, a reflection in the mirror behind the bar, a face I might recognize in the crowd. There was nothing useful, just me laughing at something on my phone, caught from an angle across the room like someone had planned exactly where to stand.I thought about calling Reyna and decided against it, because I did not know what I would even say. I thought about Emrys, and how easily he had shown up at the rink that afternoon with no real explanation, and I wondered if the two things were connected. Whoever took that photo knew I would be at that bar. That meant they knew where I was staying, or they had been watching me since I landed in Frostbridge. Neither option let me sleep much that night.By morning I had convinced myself the only way forward was to keep working and stay sharp, because falling apart
Last Updated: 2026-10-17
Chapter: Chapter 4 The Photo I Never TookSloane.My wrist still felt warm where his fingers had been, and that made me angrier than anything else that morning.I walked away from Torin fast, the camera bag banging against my hip, my heart slamming so hard I could feel it in my throat. He had no right to grab me like that. He had no right to ask me anything about my life, not after he had thrown me out of his without a single explanation eight years ago."You don't get to be jealous," I muttered to myself in the empty hallway. "Not after what you did."I found an empty corner near the equipment room and stood there until my hands stopped shaking, then I raised my camera and forced myself to work, because work was the only thing I trusted right now.I shot the team stretching out on the ice, sticks tapping in rhythm, breath fogging in the cold air. I shot the coaches shouting drills from the boards. I shot a rookie falling flat on his back and laughing about it, and for a few minutes the anger in my chest cooled into something
Last Updated: 2026-10-17
Chapter: Chapter 3 :The Price I Never Told HerTorin.I smelled her before I saw her, and for one full second I forgot how to breathe.Eight years had passed since I had last touched that scent. It hit me the same way it had the first time, warm and familiar, like something my body remembered even when my mind had spent a decade trying to forget it. Then I turned the corner and there she was, Sloane Hargrove, standing in my hallway with a camera hanging from her shoulder as if she belonged there.She did not belong here. She belonged somewhere far away from me, somewhere I could not hurt her again."Sloane." Her name came out rougher than I meant it to."Torin." Her voice was steady, professional, the voice of a stranger who had built a whole life without me in it. "I am covering the season for the network."I heard myself say something about being told a photographer was coming, but the words felt far away, because all I could think about was the last time I had stood this close to her and torn her heart out with six words.I ha
Last Updated: 2026-10-17
Chapter: Chapter 2: Two Names I Did Not Want to KnowSloane.I woke up before he did, sunlight cutting through a gap in the curtains and landing right across his face.For a moment I just watched him breathe, the rise and fall of his chest, the way his jaw looked softer in sleep than it had all night. Then my brain caught up with the rest of me, and I remembered what I had smelled against his throat, and I sat straight up in bed.He is an Alpha. That scent did not belong to a stranger from a bar. It belonged to someone who had a pack behind him, a rank, a reason to hide what he was.He stirred at the movement beside him and opened his eyes slowly, and for a second neither of us said anything. The silence sat heavy between us, thick with everything we had figured out about each other in the same breath, right before things had gone too far to stop."You already knew," I said. It was not a question."I knew the second you got close enough to smell me." His voice was rough with sleep, but his eyes were sharp, watching me the way a wolf wat
Last Updated: 2026-10-17
Chapter: Chapter 1 The Scent I Never ForgotSloane.My phone rang while I was eating cereal straight from the box, and Reyna's name lit up the screen like a warning."Please tell me you are sitting down," she said the second I picked up."I am standing in my kitchen eating dry cereal like a raccoon. What is it?""The Rangers documentary. Full access. Locker room, team buses, practice, everything. They want you for the whole championship run, and they want an answer by tomorrow."I put the box down slowly. "Which Rangers, Reyna?""Frostbridge." Her voice softened. "I know what that city means to you."I did not answer right away. Eight years had passed since I left Frostbridge with nothing but a suitcase and a broken heart, and in all that time I had made sure my work never took me anywhere near it."I cannot go back there," I said."You can. You have to." Reyna's tone shifted into the one she used when she was trying to save me from myself. "Sloane, this contract will clear your studio debt for two years. It puts your name on
Last Updated: 2026-10-17
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