BULLY ON ICE

He built his whole life on the ice. She never saw him bleed for it. Only one man ever did.

Elias Virtanen is the best captain Tampere's college hockey program has seen in a decade, and the cruelest. He runs his team with a cold, calculated control that keeps everyone exactly where he wants them: on the ice, in line, and nowhere near close enough to see the truth he's spent his whole life hiding from the one man who'd destroy him for it. His father.

Callum Ashworth didn't come to Finland to be noticed. After a single photo cost him everything back in England, he's learned the only way to survive a locker room is to be useful, unremarkable, and invisible. He has a plan. Keep his head down. Play hard. Go home in one piece.

Then the team captain assigns him the worst locker in the building, checks him harder than the drill requires, and looks at him a beat too long every single time he thinks no one's watching.

Callum was supposed to be nobody's story. Elias was never supposed to want anyone the way he wants him.

But forced proximity on a championship-bound team doesn't leave room to hide, not on the ice, not on the road, and not in the empty rink at dawn where Elias's cruelty starts cracking open into something far more dangerous than hate. As the season pushes toward the finals and Elias's father closes in with a threat that could end everything Elias has ever built, both men will have to decide if being truly seen is worth the risk of finally being wanted.

Some ice is worth cracking. Some rules are worth breaking. And some boys were never really enemies, just two guys too scared to admit how badly they wanted to lose the fight.

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