I've spent my entire life thinking I'm broken.
While everyone else falls in love at first sight, I feel nothing. No spark. No attraction. Just emptiness where desire should be. At twenty-seven, I've accepted I'm not like other people.
Then I meet Rhys Donovan—my biggest rival, the one player who makes me want to win more than breathe.
We're forced together for a month of Christmas charity events. Rivals pretending to cooperate. Enemies trapped in close quarters. And somewhere between hospital visits and late-night conversations, something shifts.
For the first time in my life, I feel it. The pull everyone talks about. The want that keeps me awake at night.
But it took knowing him first. Understanding his heart before desiring his body. Which means I'm not broken—I'm demisexual.
Rhys is patient, understanding, everything I didn't know I needed. He helps me discover my identity, accept myself, navigate a world that doesn't understand what demisexual means.
But we're rivals. On opposite teams. In a league that's watching our every move.
Coming out means risking everything—my career, my privacy, my carefully constructed walls. Staying hidden means losing the only person I've ever wanted.
And when our secret relationship threatens to become public, we'll have to decide: is love worth the risk?
Can a demisexual hockey player and his rival find their happily ever after when the whole world is watching?
Genre: Gay Romance
While everyone else falls in love at first sight, I feel nothing. No spark. No attraction. Just emptiness where desire should be. At twenty-seven, I've accepted I'm not like other people.
Then I meet Rhys Donovan—my biggest rival, the one player who makes me want to win more than breathe.
We're forced together for a month of Christmas charity events. Rivals pretending to cooperate. Enemies trapped in close quarters. And somewhere between hospital visits and late-night conversations, something shifts.
For the first time in my life, I feel it. The pull everyone talks about. The want that keeps me awake at night.
But it took knowing him first. Understanding his heart before desiring his body. Which means I'm not broken—I'm demisexual.
Rhys is patient, understanding, everything I didn't know I needed. He helps me discover my identity, accept myself, navigate a world that doesn't understand what demisexual means.
But we're rivals. On opposite teams. In a league that's watching our every move.
Coming out means risking everything—my career, my privacy, my carefully constructed walls. Staying hidden means losing the only person I've ever wanted.
And when our secret relationship threatens to become public, we'll have to decide: is love worth the risk?
Can a demisexual hockey player and his rival find their happily ever after when the whole world is watching?
Genre: Gay Romance
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