Ice Between Us

Ice Between Us

by Maren Quinn

Heat 3 / 5Novella · 12 chapters36,484 words2h 39m read~4h 3m listen

At 5:40 a.m., Northwood Civic Arena belongs to Fallon Alden — the hum of the compressors, the bite of fresh brine, the dark tunnel that asks nothing of her except that she keep the ice perfect. She has kept it perfect for three years. She has kept a lot of things buried right along with it.

Then she finds a media badge lying in a puddle with both her name and Edmund Torres’s stamped beneath the words “Second Chances” — and ninety minutes later, the secret that broke Edmund’s first career is about to break everything else.

Edmund is back in Northwood on a prove-it contract, grumpy, half-rehabbed, and still furious at the woman he holds responsible for the fall that stole three years of his life. Fallon is still the rink-ops lead who logged that illegal late-night skate as routine maintenance — and still the only person who knows exactly how much worse the truth is than the story they told. Now PR wants them on camera together, projecting forgiveness and shared accountability, before the leak goes live and takes the Wolves’ playoff run down with it.

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