Month: December 2025

June Excuse me, what? I’d been having the most wonderful first date with Cole. We were hitting it off in a way that was extremely rare, in my experience. I’d spent the whole drive home thinking about what might happen upstairs in my apartment. When I saw Rhett standing outside the building, I thought the night

Rhett When I was a teenager, I was head-over-heels in love with Heather Luzar, the most beautiful girl at my school. Of course, everyone was in love with Heather Luzar because she was drop-dead gorgeous, and friendly to literally everyone in our class. After pining after her for weeks, my dad sat me down at our kitchen

June I’d spent the entire drive over to the restaurant thinking about Rhett, wondering if it was a mistake to go out with his teammate like this. But I was having such a great time with Cole that I forgot all about it. Now our sizzling training room affair loomed large. We weren’t exclusive or

June The next day was a busy one. First, I took my car to the dealership to complain about the spark plug crapping out on me. Three mechanics examined the car, and eventually said that nothing could explain what had happened. “Maybe an animal got under the hood and damaged it?” the head mechanic eventually

June I was absolutely terrified of Elias. The bearded Swede was huge. Tall and broad-shouldered, with a wingspan made to stop a puck. He had also been mostly silent since I started working for the team, communicating mostly with glares, grunts, and growls. He reminded me of a polar bear that might suddenly snap and maul me

Elias I was not a man who asked for help. Needing help was a weakness. Men did not show weakness to anyone. Not to their family, or their teammates, or their opponents. They suffered in silence, projecting their strength. I had always been better at silence. Words never came easily, and when they did, they

June It was an innocent offer. Cole had walked me home in the storm, protecting me from rain and homeless men. Inviting him up to my apartment to dry off and have a drink was the least I could do. But when he declined, I realized my intentions weren’t so innocent after all. I wanted him to

Cole Being the captain of the Reapers was an honor that normally filled me with pride, but it had its drawbacks, too. I was expected to set an example for the team, which meant being the first person to show up to practice and one of the last ones off the ice. But my duties

June I finished up at the arena and drove home in a daze. It felt like everything that had happened tonight was a dream. A really, really good dream. But the reality of the situation sank in when I got home and showered. I’d had sex with a member of the Reapers. Was that even allowed? I

June Rhett kissed me hard, much harder than the kiss we’d shared on the ice. It was like he was proving something to me. All of my hesitation disappeared under his touch with the way his lips slid against mine, warm and wet and hungry. He pushed me against the cabinet, which slammed shut from the force.