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Icing The Heart

Icing The Heart

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Rory Callahan never wanted to be a headline. She only wanted to play hockey. As the first woman signed to the professional Titans hockey team, she has spent two brutal seasons fighting for her place in a world determined to push her out. Her greatest obstacle is Jaxon Kane, the team’s arrogant captain, whose cold glares and cutting words make it clear that he believes she does not belong. But when a public scandal threatens Jaxon’s career and Rory is once again painted as angry and impossible to coach, management forces them into the perfect lie: a fake relationship. Now, the man who once humiliated her is holding her hand before cameras, sharing an apartment with her, defending her to the press and standing too close under the excuse of fixing her stance on the ice. Rory knows better than to trust him but the longer they pretend, the harder it becomes to tell where the act ends and the truth begins. Then she discovers the secret buried in Jaxon’s contract: a five-million-dollar bonus tied to her failure. Caught between betrayal, ambition, pregnancy and a love she no longer knows how to trust, Rory must decide whether to walk away quietly or expose the system that tried to destroy her. But when the man who was supposed to ruin her becomes the only one willing to burn everything down for her, can Rory risk trusting Jaxon Kane again?

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Chapter 1 Rory's Pov
My back slammed into the boards so hard the whole rink seemed to crack open.For one blind second, all I heard was the thunder of my own body hitting glass, the sharp scrape of skates and the distant shout of someone calling my name. My helmet flew off, skidding across the ice like a useless piece of plastic while pain burst through my shoulder and down my ribs.Three cracked ribs last month. Concussion before that. If Jaxon Kane wanted me gone, he would have to kill me.I tasted blood and it was enough to make my tongue run over the inside of my lip and confirm that, yes, the great captain of the New York Titans had hit me hard enough to split skin during practice.Practice.Not a playoff game. Not a championship final. Not some desperate last-minute defensive move with the season on the line. Practice.The whistle had not blown before I pushed myself up.“Callahan,” Coach barked from somewhere near the bench.I ignored him.The ice tilted for half a second but I locked my knees and
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Chapter 2 Rory's Pov
By six forty-three, I had tried on six outfits and hated every single version of myself.The black dress made me look like I was attending a funeral which, to be fair, was close enough. The red one looked like I was trying too hard. The jeans said I had not tried at all. The cream blouse looked too soft like something a woman wore when she wanted to be liked.I did not want to be liked.Especially not by Jaxon Kane.I stood in front of my mirror wearing dark trousers, a fitted white top and a black jacket that said I had made an effort but would deny it under oath. My hair was down which was a mistake. Then I tied it up which was worse. Then I let it down again and glared at my reflection like she had personally betrayed me.This was ridiculous.It was fake.It was business.It was six months of pretending not to hate the man who had spent two years making my life on the Titans feel like a punishment.The first day I walked into the Titans’ training facility, every man in that locker
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Chapter 3 Rory's Pov
By six in the morning, I had cleaned my apartment twice and hated myself for the third time before sunrise.The kitchen counters were spotless. The living room rug had been vacuumed so aggressively it probably needed therapy. I had rearranged the throw pillows, wiped down the windows, scrubbed the bathroom sink and reorganized a bookshelf no one cared about except me.Control.That was what cleaning gave me. Control.When my apartment was clean, I could pretend my life was not one bad headline away from collapse. When my skates were sharpened, my gear packed, my meals planned and my phone face down, I could pretend I was not constantly waiting for the next hit.People thought I survived on stubbornness. They were wrong.I survived by keeping distance.Distance from teammates who smiled too easily. Distance from coaches who called cruelty “toughening up.” Distance from reporters who wanted tears and men who wanted gratitude for doing the bare minimum.And especially distance from Jaxon
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Chapter 4 Rory's Pov
Jaxon,Per our discussion, the amendment is finalized. Five-million-dollar bonus will be paid upon resolution of the female player situation within twelve months of signing. Current status: four months remaining.Resolution defined as: voluntary resignation, trade acceptance, or contract termination.Your cooperation in facilitating said resolution is appreciated.Performance metrics attached.I read it once.Then again.Then a third time, because apparently my brain had decided there must be another meaning hidden somewhere between the words. Maybe “female player situation” meant something else. Maybe “resolution” was not me being erased from the Titans roster like a scheduling mistake. Maybe “your cooperation” did not mean Jaxon Kane had been paid to help push me out of the only thing I had ever fought to keep.But the words did not change. Not in the slightest.My name was not written in the email but it was everywhere.Female player situation.Resolution.Voluntary resignation.T
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Chapter 5 Rory's Pov
The news alert came while I was brushing my teeth.TITANS CAPTAIN JAXON KANE AND FEMALE PLAYER RORY CALLAHAN: LOVE MATCH OR PR STUNT? INSIDE SOURCES SUGGEST RELATIONSHIP MAY BE FABRICATED.I stared at the screen so long toothpaste slid down my chin.For one strange second, I did not move. I just stood there in my bathroom, barefoot, hair a mess, one hand gripping my toothbrush while the headline carved itself into my brain.Inside sources.Of course.There was always a source. Always someone smiling in the locker room, clapping you on the shoulder, pretending not to carry a knife. Someone had leaked the fake relationship. Someone had spoken to the press. Someone wanted this lie to collapse before it had finished serving its purpose.The only question was who.And because my life had recently become a punishment written by a committee of men in expensive suits, my first thought was not even panic.It was exhaustion...I rinsed my mouth, wiped my chin, and walked into the living room.J
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Chapter 6 Rory's Pov
Pregnancy tests should have come with instructions for what to do after your entire life is split in half.The box only told me how long to wait.Three minutes. Only three minutes.It did not say what to do when the three minutes ended and two pink lines appeared like a verdict from a universe with a very cruel sense of humor. It did not say whether to scream, cry, laugh, throw the test across the bathroom or sit very still until your body remembered how lungs worked.It did not at all. It just gave me three minutes. Three fucking minutes.So I sat.I sat on the edge of my cousin’s bathtub in a borrowed T-shirt, with bare feet pressed against cold tiles and my hand clamped over my mouth as if sound itself might make the truth more permanent.Pregnant.The word was too large for the bathroom. It pressed against the mirror, the sink, the shower curtain with tiny blue flowers, the ridiculous little seashell soap dish my cousin had bought during her Florida phase.Pregnant.With Jaxon Kan
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Chapter 7 Rory's Pov
When the nurse called my name, I followed her into a room that smelled faintly of disinfectant and lavender. She took my blood pressure, asked questions, entered my answers into a tablet and did not once act like my life was actively combusting.“Last menstrual period?” she asked.I answered.“Any dizziness? Bleeding? Severe cramping?”“No.”“Any prior pregnancies?”“No.”The word landed in the room softly. Prior.As if this one had already become part of my official history.Oh God.She smiled gently. “We’ll do a blood test to confirm but based on the home tests and your dates, it’s likely very early.”Very early.That should have made it feel less real. It did not.Early was still real. Small was still real. A secret was still real even if no one else had heard it spoken aloud.After the blood draw, the doctor came in. She was kind, professional and far too calm for someone standing near the wreckage of my entire future.“We’ll call you once the results are processed,” she said. “Bu
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Chapter 8 Rory's Pov
Victor Shaw sat at the head of the table like a king who had personally invented oxygen. Coach stood near the window. Marcus was there too, relaxing against the wall with his arms folded, warm brown eyes meeting mine with concern that would have comforted me a month ago.Now, it made my skin crawl.Jaxon was not there.The relief I felt was profound. So was the disappointment and it scared the hell out of me. Why the hell was I feeling disappointed?I hated myself for both feelings. “Callahan,” Coach said.“Coach.”Marcus pushed off the wall. “Rory, hey. You okay?”I looked at him.For two years, Marcus Hale had been the closest thing I had to a friend on that team. He had brought me water after brutal drills. Sat beside me when no one else would. Made jokes in the locker room when silence got too ugly. Told me to be careful with Jaxon like he had been protecting me from a fire he knew he helped set.My chest went cold as I looked at him. “I’m fine,” I said without a hint of the emo
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Chapter 9 Rory's Pov
Evelyn Kane’s mouth curved faintly. “I have not been Mrs. Kane in years.”Of course, I thought as I looked at her. Even her divorce sounded like a corporate restructuring.“Fine,” I said. “Evelyn.”Something flickered in her eyes. Disapproval? Somehow, I hoped it was. “What do you want?”She glanced past me into the apartment. “May I come in?”“No.”The faint smile remained. “You are exactly as difficult as they say.”“And you are exactly as welcome as I feel.”For one second, I thought she might laugh. But she did not. Instead, she reached into her handbag and withdrew a slim white envelope. Then she held it out to me. I did not take it.“What is that?” I asked instead. “A solution.”My blood went cold immediately.I had begun to hate that word. Solution. Resolution. Arrangement. Strategy. All the clean words powerful people used when they wanted something ugly to sound inevitable.“To what?”Her pale eyes lowered to my stomach and the hallway seemed to lose air.Every muscle in my
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Chapter 10 Rory's Pov
Evelyn’s silence was the answer. The nausea returned hard and fast. I stepped away from the table. “You tested him without telling him?”“He was a minor.”“He is not a minor now.”“No,” she said. “He is a professional athlete with a public image, a violent temper and a long history of making destructive choices when emotions are involved.”“My God.”“God had very little to do with it.”I looked at her then. Really looked. And suddenly I understood something about Jaxon Kane that made my chest ache despite everything.This was the room he had been raised in. This woman had raised him. She had raised him with this cold, polished, suffocating control. This belief that love meant information withheld, lives arranged and choices made on behalf of people deemed too fragile to hold their own truth.No wonder he commanded every room like surrender would kill him. No wonder. He had been raised by someone who made affection feel like surveillance.Could one really blame him? Oh God, was he rea
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