
The Bench This Town Forgets
MM Hockey Romance · Secret Relationship · Kindle Unlimited
by Chase Power
Free with Kindle Unlimited
Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Secret Relationship · Teammates to Lovers · Forced Proximity · Opposites Attract · Praise Kink · Touch Starved · He Falls First · Slow Burn · Hurt/Comfort
He counts ceiling tiles to survive the bench. He counts the seconds until he can touch him again.
Jamie Cole is the fourth-liner who exists only to be called when the game is already half-lost or half-won. He plays six minutes a night. He blocks shots with his body. He leaves the arena before anyone says his name. He’s been invisible for so long he’s forgotten what it feels like to be seen.
Liam Hart is the franchise star everyone knows. First-line winger. Endorsement deals. The smile on the billboard off I-90. He’s charming, confident, and performing a version of himself that has nothing to do with the man who eats reheated chicken alone in a condo that smells like silence.
When they start meeting at six forty-five in the morning — empty arena, black coffee, no talking — something shifts. When Jamie blocks a shot and Liam is the only one who notices, something cracks open. When they end up in the same hotel room on a road trip, they make a deal: this stays off the ice.
But Jamie is the one thing that makes Liam feel human. And Liam is the one person who has ever made Jamie feel like he exists. And the rules they built to protect themselves are crumbling under the weight of a love that refuses to stay invisible.
With a trade deadline looming, a gossip account circling, and a lifetime of damage telling him that people leave — Jamie has to decide if being seen is worth the risk of being destroyed.
You’ll love this if you enjoy:
✅ MM hockey romance with elite-level spice
✅ “Invisible fourth-liner x famous star” emotional contrast
✅ Secret locker-room relationship with high stakes
✅ Praise kink and tender possessiveness
✅ Touch-starved hero who comes undone
✅ Dual POV with deeply developed characters
✅ A guaranteed HEA that’s earned, not given
⚠️ Content Warning: This book contains explicit MM sexual content, on-page injuries (concussion, body checks), discussions of parental abandonment, closeted athletes navigating homophobia in professional sports, and characters processing emotional neglect. Intended for readers 18+.
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