Cold Canvas

A working-class scholarship hockey player. A team's guarded captain. A blackmail marriage that was never supposed to be real. Drew Blackstone plays hockey like it's the only honest thing in his life — fast, clean, earned. He has no family to fall back on, a mother in a care facility he's one financial blow away from losing, and a scholarship held together by documents that may not be his own. When Malcolm Carter — golden heir, team captain, a man raised in silence and old money — corners him with an ultimatum, Drew has no real choice. Marry Mal, or lose everything. But the system they're both trying to survive has been watching longer than they know. The academic fraud investigation. The sports corruption. The family that built its legacy on silence. And somewhere in the wreckage of a deal that was never supposed to mean anything, two people who learned never to need anyone are slowly discovering that survival and living are not the same thing. Read the free preview chapters online on SweetNovel.