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Offside with the hockey bad boy
Last Updated : 2026-11-10
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He was the boy everyone wanted. I was the girl who wanted nothing to do with him. Until one secret made us enemies, one kiss changed everything, and one lie threatened to destroy us both. Damien Cole is untouchable. But behind his charming smile lies a secret that could destroy everything he’s worked for. His career. His reputation. His future. And he’s determined to take the truth to his grave. Enter Ava Bennett. Unfortunately, Damien Cole has never been good at accepting rejection. Their first encounter ends in disaster. Their second becomes a war. And by the third, Damien has decided that getting under Ava’s skin is his new favorite game. What he doesn’t expect is to become obsessed with the one girl who refuses to want him. And the boy who swore he’d never fall in love begins breaking every rule he’s ever made. Damien wants Ava. Not for a night. Not for a meaningless kiss. He wants her attention, her trust, and the parts of herself she refuses to show him. But Ava knows better than to trust a boy like Damien Cole. And someone knows exactly why Ava Bennett came into his life. As anonymous threats begin to surface and suspicion spreads through the hockey team, Someone he trusts. Someone who might know Ava’s secret, too. Now, with the biggest season of his life hanging in the balance, Damien must decide whether to protect his future or risk everything for the girl who has become his greatest weakness. But how can Ava love a boy who might be hiding the truth about everything? And how can Damien protect the girl he’s falling for when the very secret that brought them together could be the thing that tears them apart?
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Offside with the hockey bad boy Offside
They played the game.I still don't entirely understand how. After the arrests, after the ambulances, after Agent Reyes sat on an overturned bucket in the service corridor with her head in her hands and said, In twenty-two years, I have never had a night like this, somebody at the NCAA decided the championship should go on. Ten thousand people had refused to leave their seats. They'd waited in the dark for two hours, singing. Somebody had started the Wolves' fight song, and the Hawks fans, god bless them, had joined in.So at 9:47 p.m., under the full blaze of the restored lights, the puck dropped again.I watched from the bench.Not the press box. The Wolves' bench, a hard plastic seat between Damien and Ethan, with a blanket around my shoulders and my brother's hand in mine. Damien sat on my other side, still in his suit, his casted arm in my lap. Brandt had been taken to the hospital with a broken collarbone and four cracked ribs and a smile on his face. He'd refused to leave until
Last Updated : 2026-11-10Offside with the hockey bad boy The stairs
"Don't," Damien said.His voice was very quiet. He stood in front of me with his good arm out, shielding me from Pike's line of sight, and I could feel him shaking. Not from fear. From a rage so deep it made the air hum."Put it down, Pike," Damien said."Why would I do that?" Pike asked."Because you're going to prison either way. And if you hurt him, you'll never see the sun again," Damien said."Wrong." Pike's smile widened. "If I hurt him, Mr. Halloran's lawyers will say it was self-defense. The kid fell. Again. Terrible accident. Poor boy with a bad leg. Wandering around a dark arena. Who could say what happened?""There are agents all over this building," Damien said."Not on this floor." Pike's smile never wavered. "Every door above us is locked. Every camera is dead. The only way down here is the way you came." He cocked his head. "I counted. You have about six minutes."Six minutes. Four, Rohan had said. Give me four.I did the math. Three minutes had passed since the lights
Last Updated : 2026-11-10Offside with the hockey bad boy Blackout
Darkness is not a color. It is a physical thing, a hand that closes around your throat.For two full seconds the arena held a silence so complete that I could hear my own pulse. Ten thousand people. Not a sound. Then someone screamed, and the whole building screamed with her."EVERYBODY STAY CALM!" boomed the announcer. The speaker crackled and died."Rohan!" Priya was shouting into her phone. "Rohan, what happened? Rohan! Pick up...""It's not the grid!" His voice crackled over the line, faint and furious. "Somebody cut the main feed! The backup generators should have kicked in already, but they're not responding. It's deliberate!""Can you fix it?" Priya asked."Give me four minutes!" Rohan yelled.Four minutes. I turned toward the ice. In the dark, I could see nothing but shapes. The pale glow of cell phones, a thousand small stars winking on all at once. The beams of flashlights. The high, thin wail of a baby somewhere in the crowd."Ethan!" I yelled."Ava!" It was my mother's voi
Last Updated : 2026-11-10Offside with the hockey bad boy Drop the puck
The line outside Halloran Arena stretched three blocks.I had never seen so many people in one place. Ten thousand tickets, sold out in four minutes, and half the crowd had been turned away at the doors. Students in gray Wolves sweatshirts, alumni in jerseys older than I was, families with signs, kids with painted faces. Somebody had covered the huge white letters over the main entrance with a black tarp. Somebody else had spray-painted a word across it in dripping red.JUSTICE."Ava! Over here!" Priya shouted.Priya waved from the media entrance, bouncing on her toes. She wore a Courier press pass the size of a dinner plate, a Wolves scarf, and the expression of a girl who had not slept in thirty hours and had never felt more alive."The FBI's got every exit covered," she said, hugging me. "Rohan's inside, running the cameras. Marisol's in the press box. Agent Reyes says there are forty agents in the building.""And Pike?" I asked."Not a sign." She pulled back, studying my face. "He
Last Updated : 2026-11-10
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