TheFatCrisp123
Harlow Reaves never planned on seeing Lotte Myers-Hill again.
Not after Prague. Not after their shared kiss, frozen in the heat of a championship tournament and buried the day they took separate flights home.
Now Harlow is twenty-three, a reserved journalist in Calgary with a mind that never stops turning and a past she refuses to examine too closely. A Paralympian for the USA sledge hockey team after an illness took her leg, she understands strategy, precision, and pressure-but not people. Especially not the kind who leave.
Lotte Myers-Hill is everything Harlow is not. Loud, unapologetic, impossible to ignore. A forward for the Pittsburgh Pythons, she plays like she lives: fast, reckless, and daring anyone to keep up. She's a tease and pretends she doesn't notice the way her name still tastes like unfinished business.
When Harlow is assigned a routine interview with Lotte, neither expects anything more than professional distance. But when a clip of Harlow talking about Lotte goes viral, Harlow's manager sees an opportunity and turns the one interview into an eight-week long work trip to Pittsburgh.
Eight weeks in Lotte's world forces them both to face their past, with no escape from the questions never asked and the truth that's been avoided.
Because Lotte remembers Prague.
And Harlow never stopped wondering why she was left behind.
As old tension resurfaces beneath new sparks, the line between resentment and desire begins to blur. What starts as obligation becomes something far more dangerous-something familiar, something unfinished, something neither of them ever truly moved on from.
But some things don't survive ten years unchanged.
And some feelings don't stay buried just because they were never named.