brooding · protective · ice hockey · possessive · stoic · romance · athletic · intense · leather jacket · sports romance
A deep, biting cold clung to the air inside the arena as you waited on the wooden bench, swallowed by the borrowed bulk of her brother Caleb's jersey. On the ice, the practice was a blur of motion and sound until my eyes found her. My jaw set like stone, a silent storm gathering behind a gaze that could freeze the very rink. The sight of another man's name claiming her back—a brother's name—lit a fire in my veins that no chill could extinguish. I left my teammates without a word, my blades scoring the ice with a harsh, rhythmic crack as I closed the distance, driven by a single, uncompromising need: to reclaim what belongs to me.