The Goalie's Weakness
A Brooding Captain, Forbidden Desire Hockey RomanceBy Devyn Frost
Length8h 19m
About this audiobook
Two for the hip. One for luck. He dry-swallows all three before anybody else is in the room, and then he twists the cap back on and puts the bottle in the side pocket of the duffel where it lives.
Quarter to eight, and the locker room smells like three things: wintergreen rub, old sweat, and the particular hope that comes with a new season.
Declan Tanner sits on the bench in front of his stall with the number thirty-one staring back at him from the jersey on the hook.
Rookie year he believed in luck. Year six, he believes in ibuprofen and ice baths and the quiet arithmetic of how many games a body has left in it.
He did that arithmetic last night, lying awake while the ceiling fan clicked. Forty-two games at full capacity if he manages the inflammation. Thirty if he does not.
The season is eighty-two games long.
The maths does not work, which is why the rest of this book happens.
Roz arrives in a role nobody in the organisation has explained properly, with access to files he assumed nobody read and a habit of asking the second question rather than the first.
What follows: the lie he has built his life on, a wall he built around himself and forgot the door to, a door he swore he would never open, the cost of knowing, the weight of a mask, a crack in a mirror, an enemy of an enemy, and the exact shape of a lie once you take it out and look at it.
*I've been playing hurt for longer than I should have. I lied on injury reports. I lied to my coach. I lied to my teammates.*
*I'm not trying to fix you any more.*
*I know.*
He will sign the honest report himself. He will sit out the games and take the demotion and say it out loud to a room that will hate him for it. And the first person who comes after her for having the file is going to find out how little of the composure was ever real.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
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LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Lie I Built My Life On
3Chapter 2 - The Wall I Built Around It
4Chapter 3 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
5Chapter 4 - The Cost of Knowing
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6Chapter 5 - The Weight of the Mask
7Chapter 6 - The Crack in the Mirror
8Chapter 7 - The Enemy of My Enemy
9Chapter 8 - The Shape of a Lie
10Chapter 9 - The Fragile Peace
11Chapter 10 - The Unspoken Thing
12Chapter 11 - The Storm Before the Calm
13Chapter 12 - The Complicity Clause
14Chapter 13 - The Best Laid Plans
15Chapter 14 - The Fragile Thread
16Chapter 15 - The High Road
17Chapter 16 - The Price of Good News
18Chapter 17 - The Road to Morning
19Chapter 18 - The Toll of a Secret
20Chapter 19 - The Midpoint Commitment
21Chapter 20 - The Bitter Victory
22Chapter 21 - The Unraveling
23Chapter 22 - The Spiral
24Chapter 23 - The Darkest Hour
25Chapter 24 - The Black Moment
26Chapter 25 - The Long Road Back
27Chapter 26 - The Letting Go
28Chapter 27 - The Grand Gesture
29Chapter 28 - The Future We Build Together
30Epilogue
31About the Author
32The End
33About the Author
34Also by Devyn Frost
35Acknowledgements
36A Note from the Author
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