Overtime Hearts

Overtime Hearts

by Maren Quinn

Heat 4 / 5 · 21+Novella · 12 chapters11,711 words51m read~1h 18m listen

Kieran Voss has spent a full season perfecting the art of wanting nothing. Backup goaltender for the Northwood Wolves, he watches Mara Solís claim the crease he was promised and tells himself the cold knot in his chest is rivalry. It is easier than the truth. It is almost convincing — until the night Mara walks into the video-review room at eleven p.m. holding a printed email that names them both.

Callum Redd, the team’s PR director, has sent management fabricated misconduct footage. The trade deadline is noon tomorrow. And the lake-effect storm outside has just sealed every exit.

Trapped together in the blue flicker of the film room, with one night to find the unedited source file that could save both their careers, Kieran and Mara are forced to do the one thing their carefully maintained hostility was designed to prevent: work together. The server logs don’t care about pride. Neither does the whiteboard where Kieran reaches for a marker and draws something that proves, without a word, exactly how closely he has been watching her all season.

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