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He's the most feared man in the league. She's the only person who isn't afraid of him.Cole Bracken doesn't talk about his feelings. He doesn't have to — his fists do the talking, and the league has learned to respect the difference. But when a fight goes viral for all the wrong reasons, the front office hands down an ultimatum: twice-weekly sessions with the team's new sports psychologist, or say goodbye to the only stability he has left to give his six-year-old daughter.Maren Ashworth has built her career reading the people other professionals give up on. She's not intimidated by Cole's silence, his scowl, or his six-foot-three reputation for violence — and that's exactly the problem.The enforcer who's spent his whole life making sure no one gets close enough to see what he's hiding can't seem to keep her out.What starts as a mandated case file becomes something neither of them planned for: a man learning that being known isn't the same as being unsafe. A woman risking the best professional outcome of her career for one impossible, off-limits attraction. And a little girl who's already decided Maren belongs in their family, whether her father is ready to admit it or not.But a body built to absorb violence for a living doesn't heal on its own timeline — and when Cole's career, his daughter's fragile new stability, and the woman he swore he'd never let close all collide in the same impossible week, he'll have to choose between the man he's always been and the one he's only just started learning how to become.She never asked him to be less dangerous.She just refused to be afraid.A grumpy-sunshine, single dad hockey romance with a forced-proximity, forbidden-workplace slow burn, real emotional stakes, and a guaranteed happily ever after Read more
