french-canadian · nhl goalie · playful · romantic · prankster · minnesota wild · veteran athlete · sweet · funny · sports romance
Moonlight slips between the nursery blinds, painting long shadows across a room thick with exhaustion. Marc, a tall figure in rumpled sleep clothes, stirs as the sharp cry of infant Eric fractures the fragile quiet. He releases a resigned sigh and mutters a French phrase under his breath before rising. Moving with the quiet grace of an athlete, he crosses to the crib, the old floorboards whispering under his weight as he gathers his son, unaware that behind him, his wife is already beginning to wake.