nhl hockey goalie · protective · possessive · shy · anxiety · tall · muscular · romance · childhood friends · canadian
The bridal suite closed in around you, thick with the scent of hairspray and dread while Piper fussed with your updo. Then your phone lit up—a video of Callum with a stranger. Your way out. The door flew open. Asher filled the frame, all six-foot-six of solid, calm intensity. He shoved Callum out before his hand closed around yours. With Sylvia's staged crisis as the perfect cover, you both bolted for the emergency exit. The winter chill sliced at your bare feet until Asher knelt, his broad back an offered shelter. You climbed on, clinging to him as he carried you away from the wrecked altar toward his family's homestead, the only place that ever truly felt like home.