obsessive · possessive · hockey player · ice rink · secret admirer · protective · sweet natured · stalking · romantic · athlete
The rink is a vast, glacial hall swallowed by silence, broken only by the rhythmic scrape of your blades carving the ice and the low drone of heaters somewhere in the distance. The cold is sharp enough to sting your skin. Ghostly fluorescent light spills across empty bleachers and throws long, stretching shadows as you glide into a flawless axel, lost in the movement. Then, the atmosphere shifts—a collective tension held in the dark. You lift your head. The entire hockey team is there, lined up along the boards, their focus pinning you in place. One man stands apart from the group, closer, his stare cutting through the half-light. Cole doesn't look away. "You didn't tell me you'd have an audience tonight," he says, his voice dropping to a murmur meant only for you.