LOGINShare
Chapter 75: The First Morning
publish date:
2026-07-24 06:44:12
Latest chapter
Claimed by the Ice Captain Chapter 79: The Ice at Five in the Morning
I went to the rink alone at five in the morning.The way I had always gone to the rink alone at five in the morning, across the whole length of my career, in every city I had ever played in — the specific pull toward the ice that preceded every other morning obligation, the one constant that had survived every other change. I went because the ice had always been the place where I was most completely myself, and I wanted to know what that felt like now that the self in question was complete.The building was quiet in the specific way of empty buildings before daylight — not abandoned, not hollow, but resting. The lobby lights were on but at half power. The corridor to the ice smelled of cold and rubber and the particular compound the maintenance crew used on the boards. I had skated in enough buildings across enough years that this smell existed in a part of my brain that predated everything else, older than any professional memory, closer to the first memory of ever putting on skates.
Claimed by the Ice Captain Chapter 78: After
The bond happened on Tuesday.It was quiet. It was private. There was no ceremony and no audience and nothing formal marking the occasion except the occasion itself — the two of us in the apartment on a Tuesday morning in the offseason with the light coming through the kitchen window and the full knowledge of what we were choosing and the full intention to choose it.I woke up on Wednesday and the world looked exactly the same as it had looked on Monday. That was the first thing I noticed. The ceiling was the same ceiling. The light through the window was the same light. The city outside was running its morning at the same pitch it always ran.The second thing I noticed was that something at the very center of myself had shifted.Not changed. Not corrected. Completed. Like a structure that had been built correctly but missing one final element, and the element was now present, and the structure was now what it had always been intending to be.I lay in the half-dark and held the sensat
Claimed by the Ice Captain Chapter 77: The Question He Has Been Building Toward
One week into the offseason and the apartment had found its rhythm.Not a routine exactly — routines implied schedules and schedules implied something external doing the organizing. This was different. This was two people discovering, through a week of unstructured mornings, what they naturally reached for when nothing was pressing on them.Jax reached for the coaching manual every morning by eight. Not the one on tactics — a different one, about building team culture, about the specific work of developing players who understood the room they were in and not just the game they were playing. He had bought it in February and left it on his nightstand untouched for three months. Now he read it with the focused attention he used to give game film.I reached for the ice.Not formally. Not with a training schedule attached. Just the pull toward the surface that had been the most reliable thing in my life since I was six years old. I went most mornings for an hour, not to practice anything s
Claimed by the Ice Captain Chapter 76: What the World Said Back
I left the phone face-down on the nightstand.Not because I was afraid of what was on it. Because I had made my decision and the decision was permanent and everything the phone contained was just the world catching up to something that had already happened. The numbers, the shares, the headlines, the opinions — none of them changed the fact. They were just noise around an already-settled thing.Jax was the one who read the coverage.He did it the next morning while I made coffee, sitting at the kitchen table with his own phone, going through it methodically the way he went through game film — not reacting to individual plays but assembling the complete picture before saying anything. He read in silence for a long time. I did not ask what he was seeing. I put his coffee in front of him and sat down and waited."The response is warm," he said finally. "Significantly warmer than the piece, if that's possible.""How warm.""The kind where people are not just supportive but specific about
Claimed by the Ice Captain Chapter 75: The First Morning
I woke up first.That wasn't unusual. My body had been trained to wake before alarms for as long as I'd been playing professional hockey, a survival mechanism I'd developed at sixteen and never managed to shake. What was unusual was the stillness on the other side of waking. No practice scheduled. No flight to catch. No game to prepare for. No press conference waiting at the end of the hallway. The season was over. The Cup was won. The parade had happened two days ago and the city had finally stopped screaming.Jax was still asleep beside me.He was on his stomach, his face turned toward me on the pillow, one arm flung across the space where my body had been before I'd gotten up. His breathing was slow and even. His face was relaxed in a way I almost never saw when he was awake. The permanent tension he carried in his jaw, the thing that made him look like he was always calculating something, always measuring the next shift or the next play or the next threat, had gone completely slac
Claimed by the Ice Captain Chapter 74: The Offseason Question
Two days after the parade, the city had quieted slightly, the team had dispersed for the summer in every direction, and my apartment felt large and still in a way it hadn't felt in months.I'd gotten used to the noise. Practice schedules, road trips, the constant low hum of a season in progress. The silence now felt less like rest and more like absence, a space that had been filled with specific sounds for so long that its current emptiness registered as its own kind of presence.Jax showed up on the third evening with a bag."What's this," I said, opening the door."A bag.""I can see it's a bag. What's in the bag.""Clothes. A few books. The basics." He stood in the doorway, not quite asking the question directly, the way he sometimes approached things sideways when he wasn't entirely certain of his footing. "I thought you might want company for the week. If you wanted that.""Yes," I said, before he'd finished the sentence.He looked slightly surprised by the speed of the answer. "
Claimed by the Ice Captain Chapter 4: The First Payment(18+)
His kiss was not a kiss. It was a branding. It was brutal and punishing, a crushing pressure of lips and teeth that was designed to overwhelm, to conquer. There was no gentleness, no request for permission. It was an act of pure, unadulterated possession. Jax's hand fisted in my hair, tilting my
Claimed by the Ice Captain Chapter 3: The Price of Silence
Time stopped. The world narrowed to the space between his face and mine, to the predatory glint in his ice-blue eyes. The scent of my own fear, sweet and panicked, mingled with the storm of his Alpha presence.He knew.For a terrifying moment, I expected him to stand up, to roar with laughter and a
Claimed by the Ice Captain Chapter 2: The First Crack
Five a.m. was an ungodly hour for anyone, but for a professional athlete, it was a sacred ritual. The ice was empty, the air crisp and cold, smelling of Zamboni fluid and potential. It was my church. Until today.Today, my church had been desecrated by a six-foot-three devil with a god complex."Ag
Claimed by the Ice Captain Chapter 1: The Scent of War
(Leo POV)The scent of a hundred Alphas should have been overwhelming. It was a maelstrom of aggression, sweat, and cheap deodorant that clung to the walls of the Vipers' locker room. But the only one that mattered was the one standing in front of the door, blocking his exit. Jax "The Ice King" Th
You may also like
Yes Sir: Steamy BL Shorts
slutty19.7K viewsSTEPBROTHERS WITH BENEFITS
asteria25.7K viewsBreaking The Ice Between Us
Donna Sheldon17.3K viewsForgive Me: Marked By The Priest
AlphaKelly18.7K viewsTo Crave My Mafia Captor
Zui Gui Lang241 viewsClaimed by the alpha. Ruined by your love [MxM]
Jessisaylu314 viewsCase Study: You (MxM Romance)
Skye Black246 viewsPucking Around With My Brother's Rival
Author D170 views
