The Puck Chase: Fairfield U, Book 3

Some rivalries belong on the ice. This one has absolutely no business following them off it.

Senior year at Fairfield University was supposed to be simple: skate hard, keep the drama off the rink, and land an NHL draft pick before the season ends. But when you share a locker room with Daemon Forbes — brooding, infuriating, and somehow even more attractive when he's glaring — keeping things simple stops feeling like an option.

The truth is, taunting Daemon might be the second-best thing about playing hockey. The way his jaw tightens, the way those dark eyes track across the ice like he's already planning a dozen ways to make the next practice miserable — it's become something of an addiction. Sure, he loathes every molecule of the air around him that dares touch them both, but that hatred has texture, heat, and an edge that feels less like animosity every single day.

Teammates aren't supposed to look at each other like that. They're definitely not supposed to think about each other like that. And yet the line between rivalry and something far more dangerous keeps blurring until neither of them can find it anymore.

What started as harmless provocation has ignited into something neither of them can outskate — and with the season on the line and NHL scouts watching from the stands, the worst possible moment to lose control is exactly when everything falls apart.

Or maybe, spectacularly together.