Owned on the Ice M/M Romance
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A dangerous pause filled the space between them, both men breathing hard, both staring at each other's mouths like they’d forgotten how to speak.
Noah pressed on, his words laced with cutting, icy venom.
"That background check you ran? Money well spent." His eyes never wavered, his gaze fixed and unblinking, his voice flat and mechanized. The kind of calm that signals the imminent shattering of a dam.
"It’s true," he admitted, "I don’t have any family living in Crestwick." His jaw tensed painfully, each word a betrayal of his own past he’d fought so hard to conceal. Yet he forced the damning truth out. "My mom’s in Linden Hollow Cemetery."