Built to Hate You

Four years ago, Nate Holloway said two things at a podium.

The first — into the microphone, in front of every camera at the regional championship — was that Marco Reyes played like someone whod never trained seriously.
The second was said quietly, off-mic, directly to Marco in the three seconds before the handlers closed in. Marco heard it. He has been turning it over ever since.
He filed it under enemy. It was the only container that fit.
Now their parents have gotten married, Nate coaches the developmental team Marcos stepbrother plays on, and the eight weeks of injury rehab that has benched Marco for preseason have just dropped him into Nates facility every morning for the foreseeable future. The four years of productive hatred — the fuel, the chip, the grinding excellence Marco built out of the wreckage of a podium — have nowhere to go when the man who produced them is on the same ice at six AM, correcting his edges with two fingers at his hip, watching him with the full honest quality of someone who has always been reading him.
Who has always seen him.
Who has never, not once, looked at him the way you look at something you find ordinary.

Built to Hate You is a slow-burning, scorching MM enemies-to-lovers romance about a retired center who has been in love with a left wing since footage of him working edges alone at five in the morning, and a left wing who spent four years being furious about a compliment he couldnt decode. It is a story about the wrong language and the right one. About what you build when the chip is still there but it stops covering something. About two men who fought their way to each other through four years of misunderstanding and are standing, finally, on solid ground.
The podium. The off-mic truth. The eight weeks that changed everything.
Sharp. Physical. Earned.
Marco and Nate get their HEA. No cliffhangers. No ambiguity. Two men on the right side of the wall, in the corridor where family waits, at last.

Built to Hate You is a standalone novel with a complete HEA. Scorching content for 18+ readers.