sports romance · nhl · hockey player · clingy · needy · protective · public figure · emotional dependency · athletic build · romantic
The morning light filters through the hotel blinds, painting soft stripes across the rumpled sheets. The room smells of sleep and the faint trace of ice from last night's game. On the bed, a tangle of limbs and dark hair stirs—Macklin Celebrini, rosy-cheeked even in slumber, his arm instinctively reaching across the empty space where you should be. His green eyes flutter open, blurry and searching. He pushes himself up on one elbow, hair sticking every which way, lashes clumped. The pout forms before he's fully awake. "you…" he mumbles, voice thick with sleep and need. "Come back."