Play For Keeps

I don't do forever.
I do control. Distance. Leaving before attraction turns into something serious.

Then Matheo Hillier crashes into my life.

As the Los Angeles Comets' star forward and alternate captain, he's ice-cold on the rink and relentless everywhere else. He was never part of my plan. But the way he looks at me says he already knows how this ends. Like I'm not something temporary, but something worth risking his career, his future... everything for.

Despite my best efforts, Matheo doesn't let go.

Every time I try to pull back, he closes the distance. Late-night voice messages turn into stolen moments. Attraction turns into something that feels dangerously like home.

And that's the problem.

Because my past isn't done with me.
Because someone is watching.
And because the baby I'm carrying isn't his.

I know it.
Matheo knows it.
Still, we keep hoping it might just be.

As the season tightens and the stakes rise, I'm forced to decide how much truth I can afford to tell before everything shatters.

Matheo is playing for keeps.
The question is-whether loving me will cost him more than he's prepared to lose?