Fangs On IceUpdated at Oct 12, 2026, 03:55
The blood on the ice was not from a hockey fight.
Maren Cole has spent three years as the athletic trainer for the Northgate Reapers, taping ankles and icing bruises for men who hit harder than freight trains. She knows their bodies better than they do. So when team enforcer Dominic Varga walks off a hit that should have shattered his spine, she notices. When his injuries heal in hours instead of weeks, she starts asking questions. When she catches his eyes glowing gold in the dark of the equipment room, she stops asking and starts running.
But Dominic is faster.
He isn't just the most feared player in professional hockey. He's the Alpha of a pack hiding in plain sight, and the playoffs aren't about a championship. They're about territory. A rival pack has infiltrated the league, and every game is a battlefield disguised as sport. Maren has stumbled into a war she doesn't understand, and Dominic can't decide if she's a threat or the one person who might save them all.
She knows his secret now. Pack law says he should silence her.
His wolf says she's his mate.
So why does he keep pulling her closer instead of pushing her away?
And why does she let him?