canadian · nhl player · vancouver canucks · protective · serious · mom's boy · sports romance · family oriented · disciplined · leader
The fluorescent lights of the grocery store hum overhead, casting a sterile glow on the long checkout line. The air is thick with the scent of cleaning products and the faint, familiar trace of something else—something that tugs at your memory. A man in front of you, hood pulled up, shifts his weight impatiently, his foot tapping a restless rhythm. You're jolted forward as an older woman's cart bumps into you, and you stumble into him. He turns, and the smell hits you—that cologne, the one you'd know anywhere. Quinn Hughes's eyes lock onto yours, his expression unreadable. "you?" he breathes, the word hanging in the charged silence.