Score Me, Captain
by itsvlada
👬🏻 A hot LGBTQ+ romance that explores secrets and undeniable attraction…
- Genre
- Romance
- Chapters
- 150
- Status
- Completed
- Reads
- 16K
18+Review by Julia ·
Asher Carpenter has spent years chasing Blaze Wilson, the golden boy of college hockey. Blaze was always a step ahead in stats, performance, and holding the captain position. Resentment simmers until one kiss changes everything, and it starts as denial, then turns into a secret relationship.
Now Asher tries to fight his feelings as he is terrified of what caring for Blaze could cost him. After pressure from the team and various rumours, danger is circling. Asher must decide if protecting his reputation is worth losing the person he loves.
Themes Discussed in Score Me, Captain
🔐 Secret relationships hidden behind the locker room
🏒 Sports pressure and masculinity
🚫 An emotional denial
💘 Enemies to lovers dynamics
Reasons to Read Score Me, Captain
⚔️ Intense rivalry between two males
💥 A heartfelt story of love, fear and self acceptance
⛸️ A college hockey setting
💋 LGBTQ trope
Meet The Main Characters
♂️ Asher Carpenter
A young and talented hockey player who has tons of pride and lots of insecurity. He wants to be the best and is fiercely competitive as well as emotionally guarded. However, he is scared that his sexuality may become a problem. Asher must navigate his feelings and choose his identity over fear of being judged.
♂️ Blaze Wilson
The confident hockey team captain has a magnetic presence but hides his emotional scars. He is brilliant on the ice, but his life is complicated off the ice. He has to come to the realisation that he is more vulnerable than others believe.
❤️This steamy LGBTQ+ romance starts with enemies-to-lovers tension and explores vulnerabilities and the importance of choosing yourself over what people might expect from you.
Score Me, Captain synopsis
Asher Carpenter has always lived in the shadow of Blaze Wilson—his rival, his competition, and now the new hockey captain at his college. When resentment and heartbreak collide, a stolen kiss between enemies ignites an attraction Asher refuses to admit.
Forced into a secret relationship, Asher battles his denial while Blaze hides a past that could separate them both. As desire deepens and threats close in, Asher must choose between protecting his reputation—or risking everything for the one person he was never supposed to love.
Read Score Me, Captain – Chapter 1
Asher’s POV
The transfer students file into the arena one by one, and I couldn't care less about any of them.
My skates are already laced, my stick taped fresh this morning, and my mind locked on one thing only—the captain title I've been chasing for three goddamn years.
Coach Wellington hinted that today's scrimmage would seal the deal. Three years of six AM practices, bloody knuckles, and muscles screaming for mercy. Three years of being the first one on the ice and the last one off.
This is my moment, and nothing is going to take it from me.
I stretch my shoulders, rolling the tension from my neck, when a laugh cuts through the noise. Not just any laugh. A laugh I'd recognize anywhere, even after all this time.
My heart slams to a stop.
I turn, and there he is. Blaze Wilson. Messy hair falling into warm brown eyes, that same easy confidence radiating off him in waves. Taller now, broader in the shoulders, but unmistakably him.
The boy who learned to skate because I dragged him onto frozen ponds when we were ten.
The boy who cried when his family announced they were moving across the country.
"Promise me we'll meet on the same ice again someday." His hand was gripping mine so tight it hurted. "Promise me, Ash."
I promised. I meant every word.
For years, that promise fueled me through brutal mornings and aching muscles. Every time I wanted to quit, I remembered his face. I never imagined it would come true like this.
Blaze walking into my arena, wearing my school's colors, grinning at me across the rink.
Tropes
- Dark Romance
- Enemies to Lovers
- Secret
- LGBTQ+
- Opposites Attract
- School Romance