OFFSIDE

He came to destroy everything I built.

I just didn't know it yet.

Ren Calloway has one job.

Get in. Get the evidence. Get out.

He has done it before. He knows how it ends. He knows how he ends it - clean, quiet, no marks left behind.

Ashford's hockey program is just another assignment.

Cade Voss is just another subject.

That's what he keeps telling himself.

Cade notices things.

He notices the new analyst watching from the stands like the ice means something personal to him. He notices the way he chooses every word. The way he sits close enough to be present and far enough to disappear.

He notices.

And then he makes Ren an offer that changes everything.

Stick close to me. I'll give you every room you need.

You'll see everything I see.

By day Ren is professional. Precise. Untouchable.

By night Cade takes him apart - slowly, quietly, without a single apology.

And Ren - who has spent his whole life perfecting the clean exit - starts to forget why leaving ever felt like enough.

But the evidence is building.

The case is almost complete.

And when Cade looks at him and asks the one question Ren has been running from.

Who do you actually work for?

Everything falls apart.