The Captain's Obsession
A One-Night Stand, Hidden Heir Sports RomanceBy Harper Nash
Length8h 30m
About this audiobook
A hockey captain carrying a sister's illness and a number he has never once dialled meets the woman who was standing at the glass the night everything cracked, and neither of them is able to keep it professional for as long as their jobs require.
October comes to Portshore like a freight train through fog. You hear it before you see it, feel it in your bones, and by the time you register what is coming it is already on top of you.
Maddox Callahan pushes through the arena's back entrance at 7:43 in the morning and the smell arrives before the lights do. Ice shavings. Equipment that never fully dries. That particular industrial cleaner that smells like lemon and regret.
His phone buzzes against his thigh. *Woke up with the right eye doing that thing again. Dr. Patel says it's just inflammation. I'm fine. Don't cancel your game.*
He stops in the corridor and reads it twice. Tessa always leads with the bad news and follows with reassurance, the way you train a skittish dog not to bolt at a loud sound. She has not been fine since the diagnosis eighteen months ago, and early-stage means early-stage everything. Early-stage fear. Early-stage rage. Early-stage learning to pretend you are not coming apart.
Brynn was at the glass with a clipboard against her chest the night she heard the crack. Not a stick. Not a puck. A body. Her brother was at the far blue line, and for one second the whole building understood what it had just heard.
What follows: a door he swore he would not open, an escape route she has rehearsed, a file she does not want to read, a melting point, a first crack, a question left unanswered for most of a season, and a second session that changes the terms of everything.
*I know. That's the only reason the offer to resign still stands. If you'd lied to my face, we wouldn't be having this conversation.*
The cost is legible from a long way off. She loses the professional distance that is the only thing keeping her employable in this building. He loses the arrangement he has had with his own life since the diagnosis, in which he is permitted to need nothing and nobody, forever, so long as he keeps sending money home.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Number I Never Dial
4Chapter 2 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
5Chapter 3 - The Escape I Practiced
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6Chapter 4 - The File I Don’t Want to Read
7Chapter 5 - The Melting Point
8Chapter 6 - The First Crack
9Chapter 7 - The Question I Never Answered
10Chapter 8 - The Second Session
11Chapter 9 - The 2 AM Confession
12Chapter 10 - The Morning After
13Chapter 11 - The Coffee That Changed Everything
14Chapter 12 - The Snake in the Room
15Chapter 13 - The Runaway
16Chapter 14 - The Bridge I Didn’t Build
17Chapter 15 - The Meeting of Ghosts
18Chapter 16 - The Space Between
19Chapter 17 - The Fallout
20Chapter 18 - The Tribunal
21Chapter 19 - The Line I Crossed
22Chapter 20 - The Rain That Washed Us
23Chapter 21 - The Compromise
24Chapter 22 - The Other Player
25Chapter 23 - The Calm Before
26Chapter 24 - The Black Moment
27Chapter 25 - The Empty Ice
28Chapter 26 - The Grand Gesture That Cost Everything
29Chapter 27 - The New Season
30About the Author
31The End
32About the Author
33Also by Harper Nash
34Acknowledgements
35A Note from the Author
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