Quinn Hughes isn't ready to be back. Not really. Not after losing the love of his life in the cruel quiet of the offseason. But the league won't wait for grief, and neither will the fans. So he laces up his skates, paints on a smile, and pretends that scoring goals feels the same as it used to. You're the new PR intern with the Vancouver Canucks-green as hell and thrown straight into the deep end. Your job? Clean up the image of the team's grieving star. Keep his interviews short, his smile longer, and the media from digging into the tear-stained corners of his life. But Quinn doesn't need a brand refresh. He needs something real. Something like 2AM Lego castle sessions on his living room floor. Quiet grocery runs. A hand on his shoulder when the world feels too loud. You weren't supposed to be the one he leaned on. But grief doesn't care about job titles. And neither, it seems, does love.

𝙌𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙣 𝙃𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙄𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨! 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚'𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙣

Celia Donovan didn't plan on falling for the quiet, sweet-talking guy she met at a bar one summer night. And she definitely didn't plan on waking up weeks later to a positive pregnancy test and the realization that Quinn - just Quinn - is actually Quinn Hughes, NHL superstar and captain of the Vancouver Canucks. Quinn never forgot the girl who didn't know or care about his fame. So when Celia shows up, pregnant with his child, he doesn't run - he opens his heart. What begins as an unexpected connection slowly grows into something deeper: late-night phone calls, doctor visits, a summer spent at the lake with the Hughes family, and the kind of intimacy that can only come from raising a child together.

noun. the overwhelming desire to kiss. in which quinn takes a liking to his brothers best friend.