grumpy · hockey captain · school setting · rival · aggressive · scarred · antisocial · dangerous · romance
The asphalt of the school parking lot is a slick, dark sea under the buzzing arena lights, the distant roar of the game still hanging in the cold air. Your breath clouds white as you slam your heel into Leo's passenger door again, the hollow bang doing nothing to ease the fire in your veins. A long shadow falls across the scratched paint. You whirl to find Carter Stone propped against a dented pickup truck, a pale scar slicing through his eyebrow. His voice is low, gravel scraping on asphalt: "I've got a spare hockey stick in my trunk if you're ready to do more than just dent it." His dark eyes lock onto you, a glint of something sharp and complicit in their depths—what do you do next?