Pucking the Hotshot

I’m fake-dating my brother's worst enemy. His son wrecked my heart first. Rhett wrecked everything else. Rhett Maddox is a walking red flag in hockey skates. Tattooed, grumpy, and famous for hits on the ice. My brother's most hated teammate. Completely off-limits. So of course one viral photo becomes a deal. He needs the optics. I need the money. Neither of us needs the feelings. Now I'm living in his house, with a contract that says none of this is real. Except Rhett reads his son bedtime stories with taped ribs and a voice so low and rough it ruins me from the inside out. I tell myself this is pretend… until his son reaches for my hand and calls me safe. Until he takes me apart in the dark and burns every line we drew. But loving Rhett means inheriting his war. A vindictive ex, a betting scheme, and a custody clock that never stops ticking. And if he loses control… he loses his son. And the man who wrecks me breathless and makes me forget I was ever whole without him will have nothing left to lose.