Off The Ice
Ongoing · Kwindumas
I didn’t see Tyler coming.
One second I was rounding the corner. The next, a hand closed around my wrist, pulling me sharply into a nearby room.
The door shut behind us.
My breath stuttered as my back hit the wall. Tyler loomed in front of me, his chest rising and falling, eyes dark with something fierce and unfamiliar.
“Tell me,” he said quietly, his hand sliding to my waist, deliberate but restrained. “Is Mark really the sweetest?”
My heart hammered.
“Or,” he continued, leaning in just enough that I could feel the heat of him, “did you just say that to piss me off?”
When Westfield’s golden boy, Tyler Mercer, suffers a career-threatening injury that keeps him off the ice, the last person he wants overseeing his recovery is Harper Lane, a quiet, sharp-tongued classmate thrust into the role of his temporary physiotherapist.
Tyler is determined to push her out. Harper is determined to prove she belongs.
What begins as resentment slowly shifts into understanding, and understanding turns dangerous when feelings get involved and their choices start to affect more than just themselves.
She was never supposed to fall for him.
He was never supposed to need her this much.
With betrayal closing in and the final game looming, they must decide what matters more: the futures they’ve been chasing… or the one they never planned for.
One second I was rounding the corner. The next, a hand closed around my wrist, pulling me sharply into a nearby room.
The door shut behind us.
My breath stuttered as my back hit the wall. Tyler loomed in front of me, his chest rising and falling, eyes dark with something fierce and unfamiliar.
“Tell me,” he said quietly, his hand sliding to my waist, deliberate but restrained. “Is Mark really the sweetest?”
My heart hammered.
“Or,” he continued, leaning in just enough that I could feel the heat of him, “did you just say that to piss me off?”
When Westfield’s golden boy, Tyler Mercer, suffers a career-threatening injury that keeps him off the ice, the last person he wants overseeing his recovery is Harper Lane, a quiet, sharp-tongued classmate thrust into the role of his temporary physiotherapist.
Tyler is determined to push her out. Harper is determined to prove she belongs.
What begins as resentment slowly shifts into understanding, and understanding turns dangerous when feelings get involved and their choices start to affect more than just themselves.
She was never supposed to fall for him.
He was never supposed to need her this much.
With betrayal closing in and the final game looming, they must decide what matters more: the futures they’ve been chasing… or the one they never planned for.
