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<p>What happens when the youngest, most successful coach in the NHL comes face-to-face with the woman he never got over - only to find out she's married to his new General Manager?</p><p></p><p>Everything I've spent my life building is suddenly at risk.</p><p></p><p>I loved Ariana Ridley long before the world knew my name. Before the NHL. Before the pressure of being one of the youngest coaches in the league. Before I learned how to survive by locking my heart down tight.</p><p></p><p>Leaving her was the hardest thing I've ever done - and the one choice I never made peace with.</p><p></p><p>Now she's back.</p><p>And she belongs to another man.</p><p>My new General Manager.</p><p></p><p>I tell myself I can handle it. Discipline is my job. Control is my strength. I know how to keep my distance - how to respect the lines that should never be crossed.</p><p></p><p>But every glance drags the past to the surface. Every quiet moment reminds me the love I buried never died.</p><p></p><p>I see the cracks she tries to hide, the fear she's learned to live with, and the way she still looks at me like I'm the one place she can breathe.</p><p></p><p>I want to protect her.</p><p>I want to fight for her.</p><p>And I want things I have no right to want.</p><p></p><p>Because if I cross that line, I don't just risk my career - I risk shattering the woman I never stopped loving.</p><p></p><p>Some choices haunt us forever.</p><p>Some loves never let go.</p><p>And trying to right my wrongs might just ruin us both.</p><p></p><p></p>