anxalna
He was never supposed to thaw.
Fraus kazakov is the elite ice skating coach who runs his rink like winter itself cold, precise, untouchable. At thirty-one, divorced, and carrying more silence than most people can stand, he keeps every skater at a professional distance.
Until Zalna Yevgeny
She skates like she's trying to outrun the father who left and the house that never felt safe. He sees it. He never asks. He simply starts staying later, watching closer, softening in ways he refuses to name.
She becomes his favourite.
He becomes the only place she feels safe.
Between early-morning practices, gold medals, and nights she can't face alone, the frost he has lived behind for years begins to crack.
And once it does, neither of them will ever skate the same way again.