Icing My Husband: Cheating and Betrayal Second Chance Romance Hockey

She found the videos on a Sunday morning while he was in the shower.

She didn't scream. She didn't cry. She packed two suitcases, left a note with three words, and walked out the door before he could finish rinsing the shampoo from his hair.

Nadia Mercer didn't just leave her husband — she erased him. New city. New life. New version of herself built brick by brick from the wreckage of everything Cole Mercer burned down.

Cole burned it all down.

His marriage. His career. His reputation. The loyalty of the best coach he ever had. He fell from NHL captain to development squad cautionary tale in one brutal season, and every single step of the descent was his own fault. He knew it. He owned it.

He moved to the smallest, most overlooked club in the league and he started again from nothing — because nothing was exactly what he deserved.

Then he broke his leg.

Then the club hired a new physiotherapist.

Then Nadia Mercer walked through the rehabilitation room door with a clipboard and the most professionally composed expression he had ever seen on a woman who was absolutely, completely, devastatingly furious at him.

Four months. Same room. Same air. His recovery in her hands — the hands he lost the right to when he threw away everything that mattered.

He is going to grovel. He is going to bring coffee exactly how she takes it every single morning without being asked.

He is going to do sixty minutes of wall sits without complaint.

He is going to tell her the truth she deserved two years ago and he is going to let it sit in the room without asking for anything back.

She is going to resist.

She is going to resist right up until she doesn't.

Icing My Husband is a second chance hockey romance about the specific devastation of loving someone who failed you completely — and the even more specific devastation of watching them become someone who might not fail you again.

Some lines, once crossed, can never be redrawn. But some people are worth the redrawing.

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