I never thought my game would crack me. Not like this. Skates slicing ice that felt like glass under my blades, every missed check a fresh scar on my pride. I was the guy who powered through, armor locked tight. But doubt whispered louder than the crowd's roar, and I craved a partner who wouldn't flinch from the wreckage inside me.

Then he started seeing me. My teammate, the one with reckless fire in his eyes, always syncing with my line like we shared a pulse. On the rink, he's salvation - body-checking chaos away, stick flashing to guard my blind spots. Off it? Those glances stretch too long in the sweat-drenched locker room haze. His hand brushes my hip as lockers slam shut, breaths ghosting hot and heavy, pulling me under.

One night, arena lights dimmed to ghosts, our lips hover inches apart - unspoken hunger hanging like fog. We crash together against cold metal benches, skin fever-slick and desperate, every grind a betrayal of the brotherhood we swore to. Road trips turn to tangled sheets in dingy hotels, moonlight slashing shadows over limbs locked in fevered rhythm. He takes me apart with hands that know my every flinch, mouth claiming what the league would torch us for.

It's poison and paradise. This unbreakable alliance on ice now fuels a want that devours us in shadows - raw vulnerability I can't armor against. One leaked whisper, one teammate's glare turns lethal, and my career shatters. Respect earned drop by drop? Gone. The only world I've clawed my way into? Isolated ashes.

Surrendering to him demands everything I've hidden. But as secrecy claws deeper, carving us hollow, how long before the ice between us melts for good?

A full-length MM forbidden teammates erotic romance featuring a self-doubting enforcer and his reckless ally.