Thirty years in the closet. Eight years in love with the wrong man. One new teammate who changes everything.
Tobias Chen has perfected the art of hiding. As assistant captain of the defending Stanley Cup champions, he's built a successful career on silence. But watching his straight best friend marry someone else finally breaks him.
He can't do this anymore.
Enter Finn Larsson—the Swedish winger who sees straight through Toby's walls. Openly gay since twenty, comfortable in his own skin, refusing to let Toby disappear. Finn should be everything Toby's afraid of. Instead, he's everything Toby needs.
But wanting and having are different things.
Coming out means risking everything: his career, his captaincy, his carefully constructed life. First relationships are messy. Falling in love is terrifying. And Toby doesn't know how to be the man Finn deserves when he's spent three decades being nobody at all.
Finn's patient. He'll wait. But he won't let Toby hide forever.
On a team where five openly gay couples have already changed hockey history, Toby has proof that honesty is possible. He just has to be brave enough to claim it. To reach for the Swedish defenseman who's been reaching back all along. To risk his heart on someone who might actually catch it.
Can a man who's spent his life hiding find the courage to step into the light? Or will fear cost him the one person worth the risk?
Some loves are worth waiting for. Some require fighting for. This one demands both.
Genre: Gay Romance
Tobias Chen has perfected the art of hiding. As assistant captain of the defending Stanley Cup champions, he's built a successful career on silence. But watching his straight best friend marry someone else finally breaks him.
He can't do this anymore.
Enter Finn Larsson—the Swedish winger who sees straight through Toby's walls. Openly gay since twenty, comfortable in his own skin, refusing to let Toby disappear. Finn should be everything Toby's afraid of. Instead, he's everything Toby needs.
But wanting and having are different things.
Coming out means risking everything: his career, his captaincy, his carefully constructed life. First relationships are messy. Falling in love is terrifying. And Toby doesn't know how to be the man Finn deserves when he's spent three decades being nobody at all.
Finn's patient. He'll wait. But he won't let Toby hide forever.
On a team where five openly gay couples have already changed hockey history, Toby has proof that honesty is possible. He just has to be brave enough to claim it. To reach for the Swedish defenseman who's been reaching back all along. To risk his heart on someone who might actually catch it.
Can a man who's spent his life hiding find the courage to step into the light? Or will fear cost him the one person worth the risk?
Some loves are worth waiting for. Some require fighting for. This one demands both.
Genre: Gay Romance
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