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Chicago Storm #2
Cross Check: Un MM Hockey Romance Spicy: Coinquilini, Forced Proximity e Hurt/Comfort (Chicago Storm (Una serie Hockey Romance MM) Vol. 2)
A disgraced NHL forward with nothing left to lose. A goalie who sees everything. And one apartment, one investigation, and a season neither of them expected to survive.
Nico Varis lost everything — his team, his name, his reputation — when a gambling investigation he had nothing to do with destroyed his career overnight. Traded to the Chicago Storm under a cloud of suspicion, he's assigned to live with starting goalie Kieran Walsh, who's been ordered to monitor him and report back to management. Walsh is controlled, private, and impossible to read. Nico doesn't trust him. He doesn't trust anyone. He sleeps on the floor because floors can't be taken away.
But Kieran Walsh pays attention the way goalies do — constant, precise, and unrelenting. He notices the nightmares. He notices the 3 AM tea ritual. He notices that Nico rearranges his mugs at four in the morning like a man trying to impose order on a world that keeps pulling the rug. And when the media comes for Nico again, Walsh doesn't step aside. He steps in front. And Nico is terrified — not of the investigation, not of the press, but of what it means to let someone stay.
✓ Roommates / forced proximity
✓ Hurt/comfort
✓ Goalie leaves his crease
✓ He fell first
✓ Found family
✓ Touch-starved
✓ Dual first-person POV
Heat Explicit
Intense, tender, earned
Chicago, NHL
HEA.
Chicago Storm Series, Book 2. Can be read as a standalone.
Some saves happen off the ice.
Nico Varis lost everything — his team, his name, his reputation — when a gambling investigation he had nothing to do with destroyed his career overnight. Traded to the Chicago Storm under a cloud of suspicion, he's assigned to live with starting goalie Kieran Walsh, who's been ordered to monitor him and report back to management. Walsh is controlled, private, and impossible to read. Nico doesn't trust him. He doesn't trust anyone. He sleeps on the floor because floors can't be taken away.
But Kieran Walsh pays attention the way goalies do — constant, precise, and unrelenting. He notices the nightmares. He notices the 3 AM tea ritual. He notices that Nico rearranges his mugs at four in the morning like a man trying to impose order on a world that keeps pulling the rug. And when the media comes for Nico again, Walsh doesn't step aside. He steps in front. And Nico is terrified — not of the investigation, not of the press, but of what it means to let someone stay.
✓ Roommates / forced proximity
✓ Hurt/comfort
✓ Goalie leaves his crease
✓ He fell first
✓ Found family
✓ Touch-starved
✓ Dual first-person POV
Heat Explicit
Intense, tender, earned
Chicago, NHL
HEA.
Chicago Storm Series, Book 2. Can be read as a standalone.
Some saves happen off the ice.
Kindle Edition
Published April 1, 2026
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March 27, 2026
Not steamy at all
KU Read
161 Pages
Chicago Storm: Book 2
MM Hockey Romance
Forced Proximity
Roommates
Teammates
Hurt/Comfort
Not a bad Read but not steamy at all. The intimate scenes are more 'fade to black' or implied but it fits the style of the book. It's a short read and easy to fly through with a good plot but it's not too deep and stays quite light hearted.
KU Read
161 Pages
Chicago Storm: Book 2
MM Hockey Romance
Forced Proximity
Roommates
Teammates
Hurt/Comfort
Not a bad Read but not steamy at all. The intimate scenes are more 'fade to black' or implied but it fits the style of the book. It's a short read and easy to fly through with a good plot but it's not too deep and stays quite light hearted.
April 14, 2026
Molto bello e molto ben scritto. Davvero questo è da cinque stelline.
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