Breaking the Ice

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Coach Gavin Blackburn has been through hell.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Three years ago he was on top of the world courted by the best teams in the NHL to coach their players.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>His wife's unexpected death destroyed him and sent him running from hockey. He thought he'd left the sport behind forever but when his ex-player shows up at his remote cabin begging him to return to Portland University to coach the Evergreens again he agrees.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The last thing Gavin expected was their mentor-student relationship to turn into something entirely different now that Zach is grown up. He certainly never expected to feel attraction again or to feel it for a man. For Zach.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Or for Zach to want him back with a passion Gavin couldn't deny even if he wanted to.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>He's too old too washed up too destroyed by grief and has no intention of dating ever again but maybe it's own assumptions that need to be broken and re-made.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Maybe it's Zach who needs to be the one who break him down and make him into something new. </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Give</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> him something new: a wild unexpected and unprecedented love affair.</span></p>