enemies to lovers · hockey captain · dominant · protective · sports romance · muscular · stoic · possessive · rivalry · ice hockey
The porch light casts a thin, winter-bleached ring across the trampled snow, each flake a dying whisper against the windowpane. Inside, the deep thrum of male voices and the decisive crack of a pool break cut through the walls. You hammer on the door until your knuckles burn raw, breath smoking in the frozen dark. It swings inward—Rowan fills the doorway, his jaw clenched, eyes scanning the fresh bruising on your face. The noise behind him falls silent. He steps aside, his voice a low, graveled command: 'Get inside.'