THE CAPTAIN'S PREY

HE WAS BUILT TO BREAK YOU. HE NEVER PLANNED ON WANTING TO KEEP YOU.

Kasper Niemi learned young that being noticed by someone powerful is never a compliment. It's a countdown. So when he walks onto the ice as a scholarship-less walk-on and catches the attention of Tampere's ruthless team captain, he braces for exactly what history has taught him to expect: to be singled out, broken down, and discarded before the season even starts.

Aksel Björkman doesn't do soft. He doesn't do mercy, and he definitely doesn't do wanting things he can't fully control. A first-round prospect carrying his family's entire fractured legacy on his shoulders, Aksel decides within minutes that the unscholarshipped nobody doesn't belong on his ice, and sets out to prove it. Demoting him. Isolating him. Making an example out of him in front of the whole team.

Except Kasper doesn't break. He adapts, cold and unbothered, refusing to give Aksel the reaction he's hunting for, and something about that refusal gets under Aksel's skin in a way nothing ever has. What starts as a campaign to crush him twists, slowly and dangerously, into something neither man has a name for. Stolen moments after hours. A control that keeps slipping at exactly the wrong times. A hunger neither of them can call anything but obsession.

But Aksel's whole life has taught him that wanting something this much is the fastest way to lose everything, and when the pressure of the draft forces him to choose between his legacy and the boy he swore to destroy, the hunt threatens to become exactly the kind of cruelty Kasper always knew to expect.

Some men are prey because someone else decided it for them. Kasper Niemi is about to decide he isn't just anyone's target ever again.

The captain thought he was hunting. He had no idea he was already caught.

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