The Proposal Play (Love and Hockey)

My plan when I win a date in Vegas with my brother’s hockey star best friend? Poker and go to sleep early. Instead, I wake up with a ring on my finger and the sexy athlete naked in my bed.<br/>But Asher’s my best friend too so we’ll get this annulled and laugh about this secret for years to come.<br/>Trouble is our wedding pics went viral overnight.<br/>Now everyone thinks we’re a real couple. We race back home, where I’ve just landed the big art commission of my dreams and he’s launching a sports charity so we need to look like we meant to tie the knot.<br/>Easy enough. We’ll claim we’ve been secretly in love, while staying in separate rooms for the rest of the hockey season.<br/>The last thing either one of us wants is to ruin a decade-long friendship by falling into bed again.<br/>But I experience a new side of my husband at home. He cooks for me, encourages me…and buys me so many toys.<br/>And, it’s more fun to share your toys with a friend.<br/>We’re just enjoying temporary marital benefits.<br/>Except, the more times he calls me his wife, the more I start to wonder if Asher was ever pretending?<br/>And if my heart is ready to take the biggest risk of all.<br/><br/>Tropes: brother’s best friend, friends to lovers, marriage of convenience, marriage pact, he’s been secretly in love with her for years, forced proximity, my wife, pro hockey