Mine to Break: A Dark High School Hockey Bully Romance
Theresa Field
I gave her my heart in Miami. She gave it back broken.
One summer. Late nights on outdoor rinks teaching her to skate. Confessing things I'd never told anyone: my father's cruelty, my mother's abandonment, the panic attacks that hit before every game. She saw all of it. Held me anyway. Made me believe I could be more than my father's weapon.
Then she destroyed me.
The morning I was supposed to leave, I found her in another guy's arms. Watched her cry for him. Realized every word had been a performance.
I blocked her number. Deleted every photo. Spent two years building walls so high nothing could touch me again.
Two years later, she walks into Eastwood Prep.
My school. My territory. Where she could end me with a single conversation about what the hockey captain is really like when no one's watching.
So I destroy her first.
Get her fired. Sabotage her scholarship. Make sure everyone knows she's nobody. I need her gone before she ruins everything I've built.
But Jennifer Trace doesn't break.
She works two jobs to keep her family alive. Fights for every opportunity I burn down. Stares at me across the rink like she's daring me to remember who I was when I loved her.
And the sick part? I can't stop watching.
Tracking her every move. Noticing when she skips meals. When exhaustion makes her hands shake. When Ryan Cookman starts circling, offering help, offering money, offering things that come with prices she doesn't understand yet.
I know what he is. Know exactly what he'll demand from her.
And I'm the one who made her desperate enough to say yes.
Thirty days until her scholarship review. Thirty days until the panel decides if she stays or loses everything.
I should back off. Should let her survive this.
Instead, I keep pushing. Keep tearing her down. Keep driving her straight into his hands.
Because some twisted part of me would rather watch her destroyed than watch her stand up and prove she never needed me at all.
She thinks I'm her biggest problem.
She has no idea I'm about to become her only one.
Perfect for readers who crave:
🔥 Bully romance with bite
💔 Obsessive villain who can't let go
⚡ Emotional devastation without apology
🏒 High-stakes hockey with higher personal costs
🌶️ Tension that burns (payoff in Book 2)
👑 Heroine who refuses to break
⚠️ Content Warning: Systematic bullying, emotional manipulation, financial coercion, panic attacks, on-page cruelty, and a hero who gets worse before he gets better, Spicy scenes.🌶️ 18+.
This is Book 1 of 2. Cliffhanger ending. HEA in Book 2 only.
MINE TO BREAK
Book 1 of the Thin Ice Duology
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