My Hockey Heartthrob: A Promise in Overtime
READING AGE 16+
He promised her forever. Then he broke it without a word.
Mara Bennett survived the wreckage — the breakup, the loss she never told him about, the years of rebuilding herself from nothing. She became a journalist because it taught her to read the truth in people's faces, after the one person she trusted gave her none.
Adrian Cole became a champion because it was easier than becoming a man who had to explain himself.
Now she's assigned to cover his championship run — and every cold interview, every guarded answer, cracks a little more under the weight of what he never got to say. He's cold for the cameras. He's not cold for her.
Some promises don't die. They just wait for the right season to come back for you.
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The morning arrives with the specific, fragile hope of two people who have finally agreed to say everything, and it takes almost no time at all for the world to intervene.
Mara wakes early, before her alarm, the way she always does on days that matter, and spends the first hour turning over exactly what she's going to say, how she's goi……
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