Shutout Heart by Nicola Hayes

He was my first love. My worst heartbreak. And now he’s my biggest client.

Ten years ago, Logan Shaw chose hockey over me. His parents made sure I knew I wasn’t part of the plan, and he didn’t say a word. So I dried my tears, got into college, survived law school, and clawed my way to a corner office at one of Manhattan’s top firms until no one could ever make me feel small again.
Then my firm assigns me the New York Renegades’ sponsorship contracts, and suddenly Logan Shaw is everywhere. At events. At games. Standing too close. Saying all the things eighteen-year-old him never had the spine to say.
He’s not that boy anymore. He’s patient where he used to be passive. He’s choosing me in ways he never did before. And when he touches me, ten years disappear like they were nothing.
But his mother’s smile still cuts like a knife. His father still runs his life. And when the moment comes — when I need him to stand in front of his family and fight for me — I’ve already lived through what happens when he doesn’t.

I survived Logan Shaw once. It almost broke me.
I won’t give him the chance to do it again.