He hid his designation to keep his place on the ice. His new linemate notices everything.
Cal Mercer is the best faceoff man in the league, and for nine years he's been something else an omega passing as beta. Sleeves down. Wrists taped. Four feet from every alpha in the room. One daily routine stands between him and losing everything, and the only doctor who knows just announced her retirement.
Then the Hellions trade for Ronan Kessick.
Six-foot-four, two-forty, the enforcer who broke Cal's last linemate's face. Cal won't shake his hand. Coach puts him on Cal's wing anyway. Then in his hotel room. Every road night. All season.
Ronan smelled the wall the first day. He grew up behind one. He has three rules about what an alpha does with a secret like that, and he intends to keep every one of stand in front of Cal, face the door, and never say what he knows.
But a block was built to hold against a league.
It was never built to hold against him.
Scent Block is a slow-burn MM omegaverse hockey romance
♦ A hidden omega with everything to lose
♦ A protective alpha who learns that wanting someone means restraint
♦ Enemies to lovers, forced proximity, and one bed in Minneapolis
♦ Heat, scenting, nesting, knotting, and a bond that is chosen, not taken
♦ A locker room that becomes a family, and a team that refuses to dress without him
♦ A complete, hard-won happily-ever-after
Adult content. Explicit on-page intimacy between two men. Non-shifter, no mpreg, no multi-partner romance. Book 1 of the Halloway Hellions, a series of standalone romances on one team. Each book follows a new couple; this one is Cal and Ronan's, and it finishes.