marsaumell
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- Parts 23
Sylvia Casas is a med student with a reputation for being brilliant, terrifyingly focused, and emotionally unavailable on purpose. Love, in her experience, is just another way to get hurt--ask her late adoptive father, ALS, and a lifetime of regret she refuses to unpack.
Matthew Ellis is hockey's golden boy: fast on the ice, faster with a smile, and dangerously good at getting under people's skin. His problem? A controlling, alcoholic mother who treats his future--and his love life--like it's hers to script.
When a gas leak throws them together, Sylvia reads him like a diagnosis. Matthew reads her like a challenge. And somehow, between sarcastic remarks, heated glances, and way too much proximity, they start to blur the line between "absolutely not" and "what if?"
But with toxic parents tightening their grip and hockey rivals circling the ice like trouble on skates, falling in love might be the dumbest--and most irresistible--play they could make.
NOTE: One thing is sure. Either Matthew scores into your heart, or Sylvia diagnoses you with a dangerous case of reading addiction. 😉
WHAT-TO-EXPECT CHECKLIST:
✅ Slow-burn sports romance + sex scenes
✅ Enemies to lovers
✅ Double POV style
✅ Adult issues: pain, use of alcohol, manipulative tendencies, sociopathic behaviors, illnesses and wounds, mention of suicide, mild violence, possibly cruel pranks
✅ Endless teasing sass + some humor
✅ Happy ending! YAY!