About OFF THE ICE, INTO HER HEART
"Your room smells nice," she said, finally turning toward me. Her eyes stayed on mine. "Just like you." I rolled my eyes, though I couldn't stop the smile tugging at my lips. She crossed the room to where I'd sat down on the edge of my bed, and before I could fully register the movement, her hand came up to cup the back of my neck, gently pulling me closer until our eyes met. My heart gave one loud, unmistakable thump in my chest. The room seemed to grow impossibly quiet. She leaned in, giving me every chance to move away. I didn't. Instead, I closed the remaining distance between us. She leaned in and kissed me, slow at first, careful, and I didn't pull away, my body apparently having decided something my mind hadn't fully caught up to yet. She deepened the kiss after a moment, pulling me closer, and I let my eyes fall shut, letting the worries of the past two days, the misunderstandings, the hurt to all fade into the background and be replaced by the quiet comfort of simply being close to her again. A floorboard creaked somewhere down the hallway. I pulled back first, suddenly aware all over again of exactly how thin these walls were, of my mother somewhere just beyond my bedroom door. "My mom is around," I whispered, my cheeks flushed as I glanced nervously toward the bedroom door. Calloway looked at me for a long moment. "But you want this, Emery," she said softly. Emery Hale is one missed paycheck away from disaster. She's a scholarship student juggling classes, a part-time job, and a mother who works too hard to make ends meet. When she overhears the university's star hockey captain, Calloway Marchetti, on the verge of losing her spot on the team over failing grades, Emery sees an opportunity. A tutoring stipend that could save her from eviction. There's just one problem. Calloway doesn't want a tutor and she won't take Emery seriously unless she can score a goal on her first. What starts as a desperate bet becomes something neither of them expected. Between chemistry lessons and ice time, Emery starts chipping away at the walls behind Calloway's captain's letter, and Calloway starts looking at her scholarship-kid tutor like she's worth more than just passing grades. But when the tutoring arrangement turns into something more complicated— a fake relationship neither of them can quite call fake anymore. To top it, she never knew she had a yandere named Emerald who had a crush on her, pushing everyone that comes close to Elena away, forcing Elena to be be her girlfriend and making everything between her and Calloway complicated. Emery will have to decide if she's playing a game she can win, or falling for one she never saw coming. A slow-burn sports romance about pride, pressure, and falling for the girl you were only supposed to be helping and avoiding. New story alert: The Alpha's Queen Contractual Bride.
OFF THE ICE, INTO HER HEART is a lgbt+ web novel by Shadednight, cataloged on WNDex from the public WebNovel listing — chapter counts, covers, and synopses refresh with the platform snapshot. Ratings and reviews below are written by readers of this site.