Off the Ice
The skin over his left shoulder was flushed a deep pink, radiating a localized heat where the deep-tissue massage had forcefully broken up the morning's muscular tightness.
Jaxson was kneeling on the rubber floor between his legs. The captain’s massive hands were slick with a clear, medical-grade warming gel, his thick thumbs working with an uncompromising, heavy rhythm into the dense knotting beneath Liam’s left shoulder blade.
Every time Jaxson lean-pressed into the muscle, a sharp, white-hot line of tension would shoot down Liam’s arm, forcing a quiet, ragged gasp past his lips.