The Centerman's Obsession
A Forced Proximity Hockey RomanceBy Marla Quinn
Length8h 59m
About this audiobook
Forty-five minutes until puck drop. That is the whole agreement he has with himself, renewed every game night: forty-five minutes to get his head straight, and nobody ever has to know what it costs.
The loading dock door groans shut behind Connor MacKinnon and the smell arrives first. Ice, sweat, Zamboni exhaust, the particular chemical sting of the floor cleaner every rink in North America uses. Home, except that his hands are already shaking, and he cannot remember the last time coming through these doors felt like anything other than walking into a cage.
He nods to Gary at the security checkpoint. The old man barely looks up from his phone, just waves him through like every other night, like Connor is not two bad periods from being scratched for the second time this season, like he did not spend the morning in a hotel room staring at the ceiling and counting his breaths until it was time to leave.
The corridor stretches ahead, cinderblock painted in team colours, the muffled thud of pucks against boards vibrating up through the concrete. He has done this a thousand times. Tonight the air is heavier and the walls are closer and his own heartbeat is loud enough to drown out the rest of the building.
Brynn sees it from the observation deck before anyone in the organisation does, and what she does with that is the actual story.
What follows: a scar that will not stop bleeding, the weight of a letter stitched on a chest, a first crack, a sister in the stands, a voicemail he has never played, a coffee worth the walk, and a wall of scarves that means more than any of them will say out loud.
*I've loved you since the coffee shop. I've loved you since—*
Tomorrow his mother goes under the knife: the woman who left, who lied, who came back. Tomorrow his sister either gets an answer or does not.
Brynn has to decide whether a man who has been managing this alone since he was nineteen is worth the thing she would have to give up to stand beside him while he stops.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Scar That Won’t Stop Bleeding
3Chapter 2 - The Observation Deck
4Chapter 3 - The Weight of the C
5Chapter 4 - The First Crack
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6Chapter 5 - The Sister in the Stands
7Chapter 6 - The Voicemail I Never Play
8Chapter 7 - The Coffee Worth the Walk
9Chapter 8 - The Scarf Wall
10Chapter 9 - The Visible Anchor
11Chapter 10 - The Voicemail I Finally Play
12Chapter 11 - The Rumor Mill
13Chapter 12 - The Investigation
14Chapter 13 - The Letters She Hid
15Chapter 14 - The Bridge Between Two Griefs
16Chapter 15 - The Meeting at the Diner
17Chapter 16 - The Offer I Can’t Refuse
18Chapter 17 - The Sabotage
19Chapter 18 - The Press Conference
20Chapter 19 - The Price of Honesty
21Chapter 20 - The Counterattack
22Chapter 21 - The Testimony
23Chapter 22 - The Surgery
24Chapter 23 - The Night Before the Game
25Chapter 24 - The Pressure Cooker
26Chapter 25 - The Victory That Cost Everything
27Chapter 26 - The Fight to Stay
28Chapter 27 - The Finals Begin
29Chapter 28 - The Cup and the Heart
30About the Author
31The End
32About the Author
33Also by Marla Quinn
34Acknowledgements
35A Note from the Author
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