Heated Rivalry (Game Changers, #2)

by Rachel Reid

December 2008—Regina

So eight years before the events in the prologue

We were supposed to stand alone at the top, but we will always be there together. We will keep climbing until no one else can reach us, but it will always be together.

Can you believe that shit with Zullo?

So now getting into the events of the first book

He wanted to stand in the spotlight of the campfire under the endless stars and feel Shane’s fingers stroking his hair and not think about his horrible father or his wonderful, desperately sad mother. He didn’t want to think about hockey, or rivalries, or what was going to happen when these two weeks were over.

What were they, exactly? It occurred to Shane that he and Ilya hadn’t even figured out what label they were comfortable with. “Lovers,” Ilya offered.

Chaos, yes

His father wordlessly handed each of them a can of Sleeman beer.

This detail makes it so authentically Canadian

He’d left Russia, he was uneasy in America, and he’d spent his entire adult life drifting between continents and between lovers.