Anyone But Him

Valentin’s POV

I wasn’t the kind of man who cared about petty things.

That’s what I told myself, anyway. On repeat. Like a mantra.

I didn’t care that Ruslan was back in Denver. I didn’t care that he’d signed with the Kings, or that the city would soon be drooling over the golden boy’s return like it was the second coming of Christ.

None of that affected me in any way, so it didn’t matter.

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