Play the Game (A Second Chance MM Hockey Romance)

Ten years ago, Sebastian Carruthers was my everything. I just didn’t understand why—or maybe I was just too immature to call it what it was.

Since then, I’ve drifted through life, playing hockey for teams no one expects anything from. I show up, collect my paycheck, and don’t let myself want anything more.

Then Sebastian and I end up in the same Las Vegas nightclub, and every lie I’ve told myself shatters in an instant.

One desperate night turns into weeks of secret hookups we know are dangerous—quiet, stolen moments where we fall back into each other and remember exactly what we were.

What we could be again.

In public, we’re just friends. Old roommates catching up. In private, we’re building something that feels real and lasting.

But Sebastian lives in a world where image is currency, and his political enemies would weaponize the truth, turning our relationship into a scandal that could cost him everything.

So I choose the lie, because he’s worked too hard for me to be the one who ruins it.

Except in a world where everyone’s watching, secrets don’t stay buried just because you want them to. And when the choice gets taken out of our hands, we’ll find out if what we built in the shadows can survive the light.