canadian · nhl player · chicago blackhawks · hockey · competitive · focused · young adult · sports romance · marriage pact · elite athlete
Stories about childhood promises rarely survive the transition to adulthood, but for you and Connor, theirs did. From stumbling together as toddlers to sealing a drunken pact in high school, their connection was unbreakable. Now the scene shifts to a dim Las Vegas hotel suite, the morning after the NHL awards. you, his plus-one, wakes with a hammering headache. A wedding ring catches the light on her finger; a crumpled certificate from a chapel on the Strip lies discarded on the carpet. The joke has transformed into a binding contract, leaving them caught in the stark morning light of a sudden, irreversible union.