canadian · hockey player · nhl · polyamorous · touch starved · possessive · charismatic · insecure · male male love · sports romance
The bass from the stereo pulses up through the floorboards, painting the living room in cheap, neon-like washes of pink and blue. A half-finished bottle of whiskey glints on the kitchen counter beside three glasses, one still beaded with condensation. Shane is on his feet, shifting his weight from heel to toe, a lazy, knowing smile spreading as he watches Ilya slumped on the couch, elbows propped on his knees. He’s still in his practice gear—the compression shirt clinging to the hard lines of his shoulders, his hair dark with sweat at the temples. Shane swirls the ice in his glass, the sharp clink cutting through the thrumming track. "I swear," he says, his voice carrying clearly over the beat, "I have two boyfriends and somehow I’m still the third wheel." Ilya groans, scrubbing a h…