LOGINChapter 167AceThe athletic director's office smelled like coffee and polished wood. The kind of room designed to make you feel small before anyone said a word.Max and I sat side by side on the leather couch, shoulders touching, fingers locking. Our rings caught the light, I noticed it because the woman behind the desk noticed it.Her eyes dropped there for just a second before she looked back up, and that second told me everything I needed to know about how this meeting was going to go.Dr. Eleanor Drew sat behind a desk that was probably chosen for exactly this purpose. It was wide, dark and immovable. She was late fifties, sharp in the way that came from spending decades being underestimated and deciding to make everyone pay for it. Under different circumstances I might have respected that.She didn't waste time."Gentlemen," she said. "I'm going to be direct. The university is receiving hundreds of calls this morning. Donors. Alumni. Parents. The Board of Trustees is in an eme
Chapter 166MaxHe pulled back just enough to look me in the eyes. His thumb brushed a tear off my cheek I hadn't realized had fallen."We knew this might happen," he said quietly. "We talked about it at the ranch. The world isn't ready for us yet. But we're ready for each other. That's what matters."I didn't say anything. I couldn't. The words were stuck somewhere behind my ribs, tangled up with everything I was trying not to feel all at once.My phone buzzed again.This time it was a text from my coach.*Emergency meeting with athletic director at 9 a.m. Don't be late. This is serious.*Ace's phone lit up at the same time. His hockey coach. We stared at the screens in silence. The blue light caught the side of his face and for a second he looked tired in a way I hadn't seen before. Not physically tired. Something deeper than that."I'm sorry," I whispered. "I should've waited. Let you have your moment on the ice without turning it into… this."He didn't answer right away. Just loo
Chapter 165MaxThe first thing I felt when consciousness dragged me back was Ace’s arm heavy across my waist, his breath warm and steady against the back of my neck. The second thing was the buzzing. A constant, angry swarm of notifications that made the nightstand sound like it was trying to drill through the wood.I cracked one eye open. The dorm room was still dark, the digital clock glowing 6:47 a.m. Ace was dead asleep, face slack in that rare, peaceful way he only got after a championship win and a night of slow, thorough sex. His new platinum ring caught the faint light from the window and sent a little spark through my chest.Fiancé.The word should have felt warm. Instead, the buzzing grew louder.I reached for my phone with the hand that wasn’t pinned under Ace. The screen lit up like a explosion. 347 new notifications. Instagram. Twitter. TikTok. Group chats. Coach’s number. Mom. Sofia. Unknown numbers. News alerts.My stomach dropped before I even opened anything.The
Chapter 164AceThe arena had gone dead silent.Twenty thousand people holding their breath at the same time. The only sound was the faint hum of the lights and the rapid thud of my own heart slamming against my ribs. Max was on one knee in front of me, right in the center of the ice, sneakers soaked from the cold surface, eyes shining with tears and absolute certainty as he held up that small black box.The platinum band inside caught every overhead light like it had been forged just for this moment.Even though we've spoken about marriage in the secret, it still all feels surreal to see him doing this.Max who used to be so ashamed of showing us in public, is now on his one knee.I couldn’t speak. My legs gave out before my brain caught up. I dropped to my knees on the ice, pads hitting the frozen surface hard enough to send a jolt up my spine. We were eye-level now. Close enough that I could see every tear track on his cheeks, every tremble in his fingers as he held the ring out
Chapter 163MaxThe arena was electric, the roar of the crowd vibrating through the boards and straight into my chest. I stood behind the glass near the bench, heart hammering like I was the one on the ice instead of Ace. He had shown up every single day. Six a.m. sharp, just like Coach demanded. No complaints, no excuses, even when his body had to be screaming from the way we’d spent the nights before—tangled, sweaty, and desperate like the world might try to steal us again. I’d watched him drag himself out of our bed before dawn, kiss my forehead, and head to the rink. Hours on the ice, hours in the gym, pushing until sweat soaked through his gear and his shoulders shook. And every night he came home to me, exhausted but glowing, pulling me into his arms like I was the only reason he kept going. Today it paid off. Ace was a goddamn force. He scored the first goal in the opening minute— a blistering wrist shot that ripped the net before the goalie even reacted. The crowd
Chapter 162AceWe didn’t make it out of bed for another hour.After the first brutal round, I stayed buried inside Max, both of us slick with sweat and cum, breathing hard against each other’s skin. My cock gave a lazy twitch every time he clenched around me, milking the last drops from my spent dick. He looked wrecked in the best way—lips swollen, neck covered in fresh hickeys, stomach painted with his own cum, and my load slowly leaking out around where we were still joined.“Fuck… you’re still inside me,” Max murmured, voice hoarse and satisfied. His fingers traced lazy circles on my back, nails scraping lightly over the sweat-slick skin.“Exactly where I belong,” I growled, pressing a slow, deep kiss to his mouth. I rolled my hips once, grinding my softening cock deeper into the messy heat of his ass. He gasped, oversensitive but still pushing back for more.We kissed lazily for a while, tongues sliding together, tasting salt and sex. Eventually I pulled out with a wet sound, b
Chapter 77Ace"Let's go inside." The words came out flat and emotionless. I couldn't look at Max. If I looked at him, I'd break.Freya stood there, a single tear slipping a path down her cheek, and something inside me crumbled. My little sister. The one I'd protected my whole life. The one I'd jus
Chapter 68Max"I'm overreacting?" I laughed, but there was no humor in it. The sound was bitter and harsh in the quiet room. "I ask for basic honesty and communication and I'm overreacting?""That's not what I meant..."""Then what did you mean? Explain it. Us
Chapter 71MaxThen he slicked his fingers, the sound obscene in the quiet room. I spread my legs a little, feeling exposed and vulnerable. His free hand stroked my thigh in a soothing manner.My eyes shut instinctively, the feeling too much to handle with eyes wide open.He started gentle, just ci
Chapter 65MaxThe room was transformed into something from a dream, something I never could have imagined. Flowers everywhere, on his desk, his dresser, the windowsill, even scattered across the floor in careful clusters. Roses in deep red that looked almost black in the dim light. Peonies in so

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