Were on Thin Ice

turn up the heat 🌶️🏒⛸️ Hockey boy x Figure Skating girl

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They say love is graceful.

Whoever said that has clearly never met Briana Kavenchi and Nicolas Crucel.

Briana Kavenchi is a twenty-year-old national gold medalist figure skater with a dream bigger than the rink beneath her blades. Fierce, sarcastic, and unapologetically herself, she's spent her entire life fighting for everything she's earned. Behind every medal is a family that sacrificed everything to get her there, a grandmother she'll never stop missing, and a promise to always protect the people she loves.

Nicolas Crucel is college hockey's golden boy. Rich, arrogant, infuriating, and impossible to ignore. Everyone thinks they know him-the cocky player who never takes relationships seriously and always gets what he wants. What they don't see is the lonely kid who grew up in a mansion full of money but empty of childhood memories.

When one careless collision on the ice leaves Briana injured and Nicolas walking away with nothing more than a cold "Fuck you, bitch," they become sworn enemies on sight.

Unfortunately for them...

The university only has one rink.

Forced to share the same ice day after day, the figure skater and the hockey star turn every practice into a battlefield. Every conversation ends in an argument. Every glance feels like a challenge. Their teammates are tired of breaking them apart, and neither one is willing to admit defeat.

But beneath the insults, sarcastic remarks, and bruised egos are two people who understand pressure, sacrifice, and loneliness better than anyone else ever could.

Somewhere between competitions, late-night practices, stolen glances across the rink, and a rivalry neither of them is willing to lose, Briana and Nicolas begin to realize that the person they've been pushing away might just be the one who's been missing from their lives all along.

Because sometimes...

The strongest love stories don't begin with butterflies.

They begin wi