Broken Ice: When Love Hurt
MATURE CONTENT WARNING: 18+ Only. Explicit sexual content, strong language, substance abuse (painkillers), blackmail, emotional manipulation, and morally complex situations. Heavy Smyth 60%
MARC:
I fucking hate Jamie Hartford.
He's everything I'm not, Ivy League educated, old money polished, and the perfect golden boy captain of the New York Vipers. We've been rivals for four years, ever since I gave him a concussion that should've ended our hatred permanently.
Instead, it made it worse.
Now I'm playing through a destroyed shoulder that's going to end my career, popping painkillers like candy, and watching my stats tank while my contract year ticks away.
My family needs me, my team needs me, my body is betraying me, and then one night, at a hotel bar after the worst game of my life, Jamie Hartford sits down next to me.
One drink, one look, and one kiss that changes everything.
Suddenly we're meeting in secret. Different cities, anonymous hotels, Tuesday nights that become the only thing I look forward to. It's just sex, just hate sex. Just scratching an itch.
Except I'm falling for him, and he's hiding something that could destroy us both.
JAMIE:
I never meant to fall in love with Marcus Kovač.
He's reckless, rough around the edges, the enemy I've spent four years trying to beat on the ice. He gave me a concussion, and I've never forgiven him but when I see him that night at the bar, broken, hurting, barely holding himself together, something shifts.
One kiss becomes a pattern. Tuesday nights in neutral cities. Hotel rooms where we can pretend we're not rivals. Where I can pretend I'm not being blackmailed because I am.
My younger brother's life is on the line, and dangerous people are forcing me to betray everything I believe in. They want information, inside knowledge, and details that could manipulate games and destroy careers.
They're asking about Marc specifically. His injury, his vulnerabilities, and I'm supposed to be getting close to him to extract information.
Instead, I'm falling in love with him, and when he finds out what I've been hiding, when the lies all come crashing down, I'm going to lose the only real thing I've ever had.
Two rivals. Two devastating secrets. One impossible love.
A hockey romance where hate becomes love, and love becomes the most dangerous game of all.
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