Home Ice Promise

by Maren Quinn

Heat 3 / 5One-Shot2,208 words10m read~15m listen

The Northwood Wolves are one bad headline away from a season they cannot survive. When a damaging leak about locker-room infighting is ninety minutes from going public, Freya Morrow gets one impossible order: stand in front of a camera and convince the world she trusts the man she has been quietly at war with all season.

Percival Frost is injured, furious, and certain Freya has been angling for his roster spot while he rehabs. Freya is guarded, relentless, and equally certain he planted the leak to protect himself. In the cold, fog-tiled quiet of the arena’s ice bath room—far from the cameras and the noise—their rehearsed lines fall apart, and the things they have never admitted out loud begin to surface. His fear of being thrown away the moment his star dims. Her terror of trusting anyone again after a betrayal that nearly ended her career.

The red light is blinking. The script is gone. And the only move left is the one neither of them planned.

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