Length7h 53m
About this audiobook
Coach O'Shea does not offer his hand. He gives Jake an hour before the first skate and looks at him like a dog he is not sure has been fully vaccinated.
In the training room, a woman with her hair yanked into a ponytail so tight it pulls at her temples is already pulling tape off a roll. She turns, opens a manila folder, and reads his own file back to him. Left knee reconstruction, Grade 3 MCL tear, partial meniscectomy, microfracture surgery, and a current timeline for return to full contact of March at the earliest.
*"It's January."*
*"I heal fast."*
Elena Vasquez is the Wolves' physical therapist, and clearance is hers, not the coach's. There is a clause in the paperwork taped to the wall that says so. The surgeon told Jake six months. Jake has given it four.
What she does not know yet is why he cannot wait. His phone buzzes on the bench with a text from Ruby, his twelve-year-old sister, whose guardian he is: when is he picking her up, because the after-school director has already given him two warnings. He would have to leave practice early, which means getting cut, which means no contract.
*"Because I can't afford to stop."*
What Jake does not know is that Elena makes thirty-five thousand dollars a year, that her brother Marco owes five thousand to a man who came to his apartment and left a warning on his face, and that two thousand of it is due Friday. She writes the check for her entire car fund.
And Luke Tremblay, all smirk and stick-and-puck tattoos, has decided there is something to find. *"I'm watching him. And I'm watching you."*
They are both keeping something the other one's job cannot survive, and the whole arrangement holds together only as long as nobody photographs anything.
It ends in overtime at a home opener with standing room only and bodies pressed against the glass, a poster board sign in uneven glitter-glue letters reading *I believe in you, big bro*, and a winger getting up off the ice after a hit he saw coming and could not brace for.
A closed-door hockey romance about a man rushing a surgeon's timeline for a reason he will not say out loud, and the therapist whose entire job is telling him no.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length7 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Ice Doesn’t Forgive
3Chapter 2 - The Paperwork in Her Bag
4Chapter 3 - The Pain I Deserve
5Chapter 4 - The Drawing I Found
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6Chapter 5 - The Volcano That Exploded
7Chapter 6 - The Voicemail I Heard
8Chapter 7 - The Deal We Made
9Chapter 8 - The Debt That Grew
10Chapter 9 - The Polar Bear Stumble
11Chapter 10 - The Dance That Meant Too Much
12Chapter 11 - The Goal That Tore Me Open
13Chapter 12 - The Touch I Can’t Forget
14Chapter 13 - The Lie I Told Ruby
15Chapter 14 - The Yes I Wasn’t Sure I Could Say
16Chapter 15 - The Blackmail
17Chapter 16 - The File I Shouldn’t Have Opened
18Chapter 17 - The Enforcer at the Rink
19Chapter 18 - The Truth That Broke Us
20Chapter 19 - The Sister’s Sacrifice
21Chapter 20 - The Betrayal I Chose
22Chapter 21 - The Everything Collapses
23Chapter 22 - The Girl Who Saw Through
24Chapter 23 - The Pep Talk I Didn’t Expect
25Chapter 24 - The Grand Gesture I Had to Make
26Chapter 25 - The Comeback
27About the Author
28The End
29About the Author
30Also by Devyn Frost
31Acknowledgements
32A Note from the Author
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