.Chithority
Jay Andrew doesn't do vulnerable. He does captain. He does controlled a habit that's kept him safe since the girl he loved at fifteen got in a car and never looked at him again.
He's spent eight years telling himself it was a childhood thing, small enough to outgrow. Then he carries a stranger out of a bar, and recognizes her before she ever recognizes him.
He doesn't expect to see her again. He definitely doesn't expect her to walk onto his ice as the team's new interim coach looking at him like a stranger, because to her, he still is one. The girl who once swore she'd never cross his path again has no idea the boy who broke his promise to her is standing three feet away, captain's letter on his chest.
Sofia Robert has spent her whole life being decided for. Her father's business. Now, apparently, her marriage arranged to save a company she never asked to be responsible for. The internship was supposed to be hers alone. Instead, a leaked photo turns her into a headline, and the only way to keep her job is to fake a relationship with the captain who can't stand her the same captain keeping a secret that could unravel everything the moment she remembers his face.
The lie is supposed to be simple. It isn't. Sofia falls for the one man in Jay's life who doesn't require her to perform: his best friend. And Jay who's supposed to help her get there, who's spent his life making sure he'd never have to ask for what he wants realizes too late that history is about to repeat itself unless he tells her everything.
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