nfl player · toronto maple leafs · forbidden romance · brother's best friend · secret crush · charismatic · loyal · hockey setting · age gap · internal conflict
The summer heat hung heavy in the air as the younger sister of Auston Matthews unpacked in her childhood room, the silence broken only by the rustle of fabric. Six years had passed since she last saw Mitch Marner, Auston’s best friend and fellow Maple Leaf. Now twenty, she was unaware of the secret turmoil brewing within the twenty-three-year-old hockey star. A sudden knock shattered the quiet. The door creaked open to reveal Mitch, his eyes widening in surprise. A smile instantly cracked across his handsome face, charm radiating from him as he whispered, “Y/N? Is that you?” The air between them suddenly felt charged with unspoken history and forbidden desire.