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Coles Rogue Wingman: An Enemies to Lovers Hockey Romance at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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Jax Wilder's captaincy is hanging by a thread. One scandal, one wrong move, and it's gone. His solution? Marry Lila Voss - the sharp-tongued, razor-focused sister of his biggest rival, and the one woman who can't stand the sight of him.
The contract is clean. Six months. No touching. No feelings. Separate beds, separate lives.
It doesn't hold.
Stuck under the same roof, with fluorescent hotel lights and too many shared mornings, the agreement starts to crack. Every clipped exchange. Every charged silence. Every moment Jax reaches for something and stops himself. Lila built her world on precision and distance - she doesn't bend, doesn't blur the lines. But Jax, who dominates on the ice and takes what he wants without apology, finds he can't stop watching her.
She's not softening. He's not retreating. Something worse is happening.
As her brother starts asking the right questions and league officials circle closer, the careful performance they've been giving starts to feel less like acting. The cold strategy Lila relied on keeps slipping. The control Jax swore he had keeps fraying.
This was never supposed to be real. Two people, one bad idea, and a contract that can't hold what's building between them.
The no-touch rule was always the most dangerous part - because some rules only matter until the moment you break them.
***
On the ice, they are lethal; off the ice, they are lost to a hunger they can't control.
No apologies. No limits. No one tells them how to play.
The Puck Brutes are the most dangerous men in the NHL - not just on the ice, but everywhere the game spills into real life. Battle-worn single dads protecting their kids and their careers. Cold, calculating enforcers who wrote their own rulebook and never looked back. These men hit hard, skate fast, and walk into every room like they already own it.
Then the wrong woman shows up.
A baby nobody planned for. A fake relationship that stops feeling fake somewhere around week three. A nanny who crosses every line her contract says she shouldn't. None of it was supposed to go this way. These aren't men who lose control - until suddenly, they are.
Off the ice, the locker-room swagger fades. Each one of them hits a moment - quiet, unexpected, the kind that lands like a body check in an empty rink - where the woman in front of him becomes the only thing that actually matters.
They'll push. She'll push back. Someone's going to crack.
New stories keep coming. The Puck Brutes aren't done yet.
Jax Wilder's captaincy is hanging by a thread. One scandal, one wrong move, and it's gone. His solution? Marry Lila Voss - the sharp-tongued, razor-focused sister of his biggest rival, and the one woman who can't stand the sight of him.
The contract is clean. Six months. No touching. No feelings. Separate beds, separate lives.
It doesn't hold.
Stuck under the same roof, with fluorescent hotel lights and too many shared mornings, the agreement starts to crack. Every clipped exchange. Every charged silence. Every moment Jax reaches for something and stops himself. Lila built her world on precision and distance - she doesn't bend, doesn't blur the lines. But Jax, who dominates on the ice and takes what he wants without apology, finds he can't stop watching her.
She's not softening. He's not retreating. Something worse is happening.
As her brother starts asking the right questions and league officials circle closer, the careful performance they've been giving starts to feel less like acting. The cold strategy Lila relied on keeps slipping. The control Jax swore he had keeps fraying.
This was never supposed to be real. Two people, one bad idea, and a contract that can't hold what's building between them.
The no-touch rule was always the most dangerous part - because some rules only matter until the moment you break them.
***
On the ice, they are lethal; off the ice, they are lost to a hunger they can't control.
No apologies. No limits. No one tells them how to play.
The Puck Brutes are the most dangerous men in the NHL - not just on the ice, but everywhere the game spills into real life. Battle-worn single dads protecting their kids and their careers. Cold, calculating enforcers who wrote their own rulebook and never looked back. These men hit hard, skate fast, and walk into every room like they already own it.
Then the wrong woman shows up.
A baby nobody planned for. A fake relationship that stops feeling fake somewhere around week three. A nanny who crosses every line her contract says she shouldn't. None of it was supposed to go this way. These aren't men who lose control - until suddenly, they are.
Off the ice, the locker-room swagger fades. Each one of them hits a moment - quiet, unexpected, the kind that lands like a body check in an empty rink - where the woman in front of him becomes the only thing that actually matters.
They'll push. She'll push back. Someone's going to crack.
New stories keep coming. The Puck Brutes aren't done yet.
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