Pulling The Goalie
Beckett Burke has always been the one everyone counts on.
The calm in the crease.
The billet brother chasing an NHL dream that was never supposed to belong to him alone.
The goalie who never lets anything past him or anyone too close.
Aspiring meteorologist Gemma Cavallo has a failing situationship, a collapsing career plan, and a turning-thirty checklist full of dreams suddenly slipping out of reach. Determined to build the future she wants—with or without a man—she makes a life-changing decision of her own.
No strings.
No complications.
No falling in love.
But with a hurricane barreling toward Coral Gables, one storm-soaked night changes everything.
What starts as an arrangement becomes something far more dangerous: real.
Because Beckett has never had to choose between hockey and the people he loves.
And Gemma has spent her whole life preparing for the moment people leave.
Now NHL futures, billet-brother promises, family secrets, impossible timing, and the fear of wanting too much threaten to pull them apart just as they begin chasing futures neither of them planned for.
Some loyalties don’t bend. Some lines don’t stay crossed. And some things can’t be controlled.
Not love.
Not timing.
And definitely not what happens when you pull the goalie.