Sweet Dreams
This isn’t a dark romance love story built on sweetness.
It’s built on denial.
On want.
On the kind of hunger that doesn’t ask for permission even when you want it to.
MARA LENNOX’S POV
The arena is already loud before the puck even drops.
Cold air bites at my skin the second I step inside, it’s smells sharp and clean, mixed with sweat, metal, beer, sweet smell of popcorn literally everything that makes a hockey arena feel alive. The lights are blinding overhead, white and merciless, bouncing off the ice until it looks unreal, like something you could fall into and disappear.