After her hockey-player ex dismisses her as just "practice," a woman finds unexpected comfort in the arms of his fiercest rival on the ice. Caught between a man who undervalued her and the rival determined to prove her worth, she must decide whether to risk her heart on a second chance at love.
Across the room, Ethan's jaw tightened. A week passed, then another. Ethan did not call me. He was waiting, waiting for me to break, waiting for me to come back. Instead, I kept running into him around campus, with Madison, at the library. outside the student newspaper office at the lantern with lily at hockey games noah
showing up everywhere he did not pressure me he did not ask me to be his girlfriend he took me to late night diners after deadlines he walked me home after class he brought me coffee when i forgot to eat one evening we sat on the empty bleachers after his practice it's cold i'm fine You're shivering.
I'm not. He wrapped the coat around my shoulders anyway. You know everyone thinks we're sleeping together? Noah leaned back on his hands.
Are we? I felt my face heat. No. Then everyone is wrong.
You don't care what people say? No. Why? Because I know what I want.
I looked away. And what do you want? Before I could move, Ethan's furious shout cut through the moment. His eyes were fixed on