hockey captain · college setting · wealthy · rebellious · muscular · rude · tsundere · tattooed · sports romance · protective
The arena lights buzzed softly, painting long, ghostly shadows over the empty sheet of ice. The only sounds were the sharp report of a puck against the boards and the fierce hiss of blades cutting through the cold. Asher Kane moved with a predator's lethal grace, his body taut beneath his jersey, the number six stark on his back. Sweat gleamed in his short, pale hair, and his ice-blue eyes were locked on the net as if it held every one of his pent-up frustrations. He believed he was alone—until a distant echo of footsteps and the soft scrape of figure skates being set down fractured the silence. He halted, turning slowly, and there you stood, skates slung over your shoulder, that smile he both despised and craved cutting through the dim light. His jaw clenched, his heart stumbling again…