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I is the captain of a professional hockey team—cold, calculated, obsessed. For six seasons, he has built his entire world around Zayn Cross, a brilliant and volatile forward who moves like fire on ice. When Zayn hands in a transfer request, I snaps. He chains Zayn in a basement with a custom titanium shackle, determined to keep him by force. Zayn testifies against I, destroying his career. But when I fights his way back to the ice, Zayn realizes he can't forget the man who once held him captive. A brutal game injury brings them together in a medical room, where they finally embrace—not as captor and captive, but as two broken people who can't live without each other. They run, they separate, they collide again at an airport. Zayn drags I back and forces him to face the truth: I is terrified of being loved in return. In a moment of raw honesty, Zayn takes the very shackle that once bound him and locks it around I's wrist—not to imprison, but to understand. When Zayn suffers a career-threatening knee injury, I stays by his side through eight months of painful rehabilitation. They rebuild everything from ash. Together, they win the international championship. On the podium, with gold medals around their necks, Zayn kisses I in front of the entire world. "I thought I was taking something. Instead, he took me—inch by inch, season by season. Until I was nothing but his. And that was enough." This is not a story about captivity. It is about two men who, out of ice and ash, bui