Shutout

Easton:

Hockey isn't forever.

The money and glory of being a professional hockey player meant more to me than a family, a home, and a forever. Now another man has my forever, and I have hockey. I thought making the big money and playing against the best in the world would feel better than this. Instead I'm empty and hollow, like a big piece of my heart was hacked off. There's something missing. Something big. Something I can never get back.

Caroline:

I loved him, but he wasn't the love of my life. Someone else was.

My husband died too young, too suddenly, too tragically. We'd been unprepared, and I was left with nothing. I had no education, no job skills, and no future plans. My controlling in-laws were breathing down my neck, ready to pounce at any moment and take my son away from me.

I had no choice. I turned to the one man who'd turned his back on me, on us, all those years ago.

We'd been...