Between the Lines

Easton Clarke has built his life on control.

As captain of the Toronto Tiger's, Canada's most successful hockey team, he is discipline incarnate, respected, contained, and untouchable. His world is rigid schedules, clean lines, and a carefully maintained distance between who he is on the ice and who he is everywhere else.

Then one night, he attends a play.

Adriel Morales is not supposed to matter. He is an understudy. A voice. A moment that should have ended when the curtain fell. But something fractures in Easton that night, quietly, irrevocably, and no amount of routine or restraint can put it back together.

What begins as polite encounters and low-stakes conversations becomes something heavier: late-night phone calls, shared silences, a growing awareness neither of them is ready to name. Adriel carries grief he keeps carefully folded away. Easton carries a longing he doesn't yet recognize as desire. Between them stretches distance, geographical, emotional, and unspoken.