I’m a veteran goalie with more than a decade in the pros.

But in Florida, I’m nobody. Recovering from a bad knee in a rented house, with no one who needs a single thing from me.

It’s exactly what I came for.

Then I meet Dalton.

And I start questioning things I never have before. Why I’ve never kept a girlfriend. Why the locker room feels like home.

Why I wake up imagining the taste of him.

He has no clue who I am. Not even after I climb into his bed.

Then summer ends, and I can’t leave him behind.

He won’t be loved behind a closed door. But my career depends on keeping ours shut.

And if I can’t risk everything and step into the light, I’ll lose him for good.