My Pucking Crush

Here's Tori Chase's "My Pucking Crush." Which has been on my TBR for a while now. 

["Protecting him is my duty, but falling for him could be my undoing.

I’ve spent five years burying my past, leaving behind the violence and bloodshed of my former life as a Bratva enforcer. Now, I’m just Luca—the quiet guy who keeps his head down, working security for a professional hockey team. I don’t get close to anyone, and I definitely don’t let anyone get close to me.

But then I’m assigned to protect Max Ryan, the team’s star defenseman, and everything changes.

He's my obsession. My crush.

Max is everything I shouldn’t want. Charismatic and stubborn, he’s got a knack for finding trouble, and now he’s got a target on his back. The last thing I need is to be drawn into his world, where old loyalties and deadly secrets collide with new, dangerous desires.

As much as I try to keep things professional, Max has a way of breaking through my defenses. But when a shadow from my past threatens to destroy him and everything I’ve built, I’ll do whatever it takes to keep him safe.

Even if it means confronting the darkness I thought I’d left behind—and risking everything, including my heart."]

Because sometimes you need a dark romance, a mafia romance, a bodyguard romance, and a hockey romance all at once. Oh, it's also enemies to lovers, only one bed, hurt/comfort, found family, and more.

And these two put me through all of that and more. So many rollercoaster emotions, so much pining, and allllll the feels. Theirs and mine. And tears (there's and mine).

Their story, their romance, wasn't easy. It was back and forth between wanting and safety. Until those two things blurred, until the only safe place was each other, wanting each other, needing each other. They broke down walls and shared traumas and held space for each other. All of that, plus the occasional death threat, only brought them together. The things destined to tear them apart, pushed them closer. Then we all cried again.

Then again, based off of the tropes and the trigger warnings, I shouldn't have been so shocked when this story nearly broke me.

Trigger Warnings: graphic violence, reference to teenage SA by a male relative, reference to death of a spouse and a child, homophobic slurs, parental manipulation, car accident, threats, and more. 

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