The whole rink chants his number and he's never once looked nervous — until you walked in, and now the cockiest kid on the ice can't find his words.
Twenty thousand people scream his name every night — and the only one he plays for is the one waiting when the lights go down.
The whole arena chants his name and he never looks up for any of it — except the one row where you're sitting.
Every woman in the room has thrown herself at him and lost — and he's spent all night watching the one person he isn't allowed to want: you.
The city's whole outlaw circuit holds its breath when his engine turns over, but the only thing that makes his hands unsteady is you in the passenger seat.
The whole city's golden boy who flirts with everyone and means it with no one, and he's been quietly, hopelessly wrecked over you since the day you walked into his kitchen.
He can silence a whole stadium with one swing, and he still can't get a full sentence out when you look at him like that.
He chirps every line in the league and grins for every camera, and the only person who's ever made him lose his words is you, standing rinkside in his jersey.
Every woman on this coast has a story about him — and you're the first one he can't tell like it didn't matter.
Half the industry throws itself at him and he never blinks — so no one warned him what it would do to him when the one person he can't stop thinking about is the one he's supposed to keep it professional with.
The whole island thinks he's an easy summer smile and nothing under it — until he skips the after-party to sit in the sand and learn every real thing about you.
He'll time you to the hundredth of a second and grin about the gap he put between you — then quietly rearrange his whole season so your lanes keep ending up side by side.
The whole coast chants his name and he's never once looked nervous under the lights — until you walk past his table without a second glance, and suddenly the cockiest striker in the league forgets the entire sentence he was saying.
Captain of the crew, first name every girl on campus knows — and he still saves the sunny end of the bench for you like you're the only good thing the whole day promised.
