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I have one job, win this game. Mitchell skates past me, shoulder-checking me harder than necessary. “Nice punch, Hart,” he sneers. “Too bad your head’s not in the game.” I don’t look at him. I don’t react. I just keep skating. He hates that. Next shift, he tries again, a shove to my back, a slash to my stick, a muttered insult about my team. Still nothing. I’m not giving him the satisfaction. But then he says her name. “Hey, how’s your little ice princess? Lena, right? Shame, she got hurt. But maybe I can help her 'heal' up”

Right in front of the world I had built to drag her back to me. A dark, suffocating rage clawed its way up my throat. For months, Danica had been mine. Behind closed doors, in the quiet, shadowed corners of the hockey house, she was the hidden flame I returned to night after night. I hadn't needed to woo her. I hadn't needed to play the romantic games that lesser men played; I was the captain, the dominant force on this campus, and I took what I wanted with a cold, possessive certainty. I thought the raw, unyielding heat between us was an anchor she could never break away from.

Then the distance turned sharp. Now he barely looked at me. When he did, it was with that blank hockey-player stare, like I was just another face in the crowd he skated past. I turned the corner toward the library — my safe zone during lunch — and nearly collided with a broad chest wrapped in a letterman jacket. Strong hands caught my elbows to steady me. The scent hit first: clean sweat, mint gum, and something colder, like ice from the rink. Jax. Up close he looked even taller than on the ice. Dark hair still damp from morning practice, jaw tight, eyes the kind of blue that used to make me feel seen. Today they flicked over me quickly — recognition, then something unreadable.

She walks out of the room, slamming the door shut behind her. I press my palm to my forehead, letting out a frustrated sigh. I didn't even realise how much the break up with Rylan is affecting me until now… but then, I will be strong. I press my head to the cold metal counter, trying to steady my breath. I take a deep breath in, then out. “You can do this, Eva. Just ignore him on the rink.” Just then the door creaks open and when I look back, Rylan is strolling in, kitted in his ice hockey uniform, helmet in between his armpits and the hockey stick in his hands.

His sports romance manuscripts were consistently dominating the literary charts, a direct output of the raw, authentic hockey files his husband systematically provided during their late-night brainstorming protocols. "Is the final chapter of your latest narrative capturing the precise emotional metrics your editor demanded, Val?" Val tilted his head backward, a soft smile spreading across his lips as Finn materialized beside his chair, looking every bit the dominant, magnetic protector. The playmaker was entirely bare-chested, his massive muscular torso still glistening with droplets of moisture from his recent transit through the deep waters of the private infinity pool. He carried a silver

She was already dealing with enough. I had just stepped into campus when Sarah came running up to me like a storm. “Guess what,” she said, eyes wide like a child on Christmas. “We have a hockey match today. A real one. With actual college scouts and everything. And guess who’s the starting player?” I didn’t answer. I already knew. “Dominic Lakes,” she said with a dramatic sigh. “God, he’s so hot. You think he’s single?” I rolled my eyes. “Why would I care?”

“They’re offering a scholarship stipend. A big one.” That stopped her. “How big?” Priya told her, and Isabella did the math instantly, the way she did math about money now out of pure survival instinct rent, Nico’s school fees, the thing with her mother’s sewing machine that had finally, mercifully died last month and needed replacing before Elena Rossi lost half her clients. “I don’t date athletes,” Isabella said, which was true, and which was also not really the point, and they both knew it. “You wouldn’t be dating him. It’s fake. It’s acting. You get paid to pretend to like a hockey player for a few months and then you never have to see him again.”

Everything about him felt easy. When he asked me to be his girlfriend, I didn’t hesitate. But he left. The moment he got the opportunity to become a hockey player, he chose it and left me behind. I remembered how broken I felt back then. How I cried for days, how I waited for him to come back, to explain, to say something that would make it hurt less. He never did. That was the moment I started hating hockey. Because to me, it took my love away. I almost forgot Duke was standing there until I felt his presence shift slightly beside me.