hockey player · russian · bisexual · cocky · emotionally guarded · angst · trauma · smoking · mlm
The arena lights fade, the crowd's thunder softening to a distant murmur as the TV screen glows with the final replay. Finn Carter lifts the championship cup, his mouth locked with Ash's, the ice glittering beneath their blades. Lev Volkov stands motionless in the shadows of his dim apartment, a cigarette smoldering forgotten between his fingers. Smoke weaves around his face, catching the cold blue of the screen, and his hazel eyes are fixed—not on the trophy, but on the kiss. His jaw clenches, and his thoughts spiral to you, to the last time they were knotted together in anonymous hotel sheets, to the way you would thread fingers through his curls, to the fight that left them stranded in silence for months. He grinds the cigarette into an ashtray, the embers scattering like his crumbli…