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Luke and y/n have been friends longer than their living memory. Born only a few months apart and as neighbours, clearly destined to grow up as friends.

Friendship in childhood was enough, though Luke's crush existed all throughout it. But now they're older, Luke isn't happy to settle for that forever.

With his Devils contract still in negotiations, he's somewhat a bit left out with hockey. So he's been with y/n more often and it's made their friendship even more easy to despise.

"Luke, you are not even listening." Y/n groans while he watches her from the sofa appearing with popcorn.

"I am listening." Luke states but he couldn't even convince himself that's truth never mind the young woman sitting down next to him. "Since I'm not listening maybe we could change the subject."

"To what?"

"Hmmm...to the fact that you haven't talked about having a man in months." Something he's relieved about and is hoping could mean he's not going to have to deal with another man getting in his way to have her.

"So intrusive." Y/n grumbles clearly not exactly enjoying being targeted for her chronic single lifestyle. "You're single!"

"I am. But I'm asking about you."

"I...I don't know every guy I mean feels like he's just not right." Y/n mumbles before slumping. "I just want a guy who is nice and actually wants to spend time with me without feeling like I'm a burden."

"You're not a burden." Luke states softly making her look at him with sad eyes.

"You have to say that. You're my best friend and you don't have any other options of people to spend time with right now." Y/n huffs earning an eye roll. "So fucking rude."

Y/n grumbles throwing a couple pieces of popcorn at the hockey player though he manages to catch one of them in his mouth defeating her purpose of aiming for his face to hopefully poke him in the eye.

"You're so annoying." Y/n mutters before she lies her head down on his lap, placing the bowl on her stomach.

"Ever asked your parents for advice?" Luke asks making her pause since they are both close with their parents but he's never asked her something like that before.

"I did once, and they looked at each other like they knew what the other would say then grinned at me and said to marry your best friend." Y/n huffs looking visibly flustered by her own words as she realises that she's talking to the man that her parents were all smug about the idea of her dating. "Sorry."

"What you sorry for? Should I be hurt that you think it would be so bad to date me?" Luke questions making a joke of it but equally it seems to spark the look in her eye that he was hoping to provoke at some point. "Got a secret crush you want to tell me about?"

"You're such a dick. That's not funny."

"I'm not laughing." Luke shrugs while y/n sits up to look at him more directly. "But you can tell me."

Y/n bites her lip and Luke could swear that she leans in towards him for a second as if she's about to cross the line he's egging her on to do.

"I should go." Y/n states standing up and moving away from him but Luke puts on his best puppy eyes and reaches to hold her hand so she can't get far.

"No. No, y/n. Come on, it's our movie night. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you. Please stay." Luke tries making her sigh a little. "Don't leave, y/n."

Y/n looks at him before settling and sitting down with him before she smiles and settles down with him.

-

Luke knew y/n would try to avoid him, so he only forced his company upon her even more knowing that as much as she would try, she'd not let him know.

So when he insists on another movie night, she doesn't decline as much as she'd like to and she finds herself on the hockey player's sofa only two days later.

Only this time it ends up a lot different when they fall asleep and she somehow finds they've completely shifted and she wakes up very confused at the feeling of Luke's limbs wrapped around her and her already conflicted feelings.

Y/n rolls so she's facing Luke, her body letting out a shaky breath as she takes in the sleeping man who is so closed and pressed so firmly against her. His soft breaths hitting her face gently as he sleeps, unknowingly enticing her; unknowingly getting his way.

"Fuck." Y/n whispers before she leans in, allowing herself this one time to be completely surrendered to her urges when it comes to Luke.

In truth she'd had fleeting and inconsistent thoughts of Luke but her rationale always won in the battle how ridiculous it would be to ruin their friendship. But somehow she's still ended up doing exactly that.

Her lips press gently to his own and though it takes him a second and he even pulls away for only 0.1 of a second, Luke is awake and returning the gesture. His hands pull y/n closer to himself and y/n whines at the feeling of him.

Luke rolls them so she's on top, giving the illusion that she has the power and control to get out of there if she wants to. But the grip of his hands on her waist isn't letting her move an inch unless it's to grind down on him and she does exactly what without instruction or being urged to do so.

Y/n can feel his length hard and throbbing underneath her. Her eyes flicking open for just a moment before she melts down into him again, not sure she wants the kiss to end in fear of what he might say following that.

"Y/n." Luke groans feeling y/n's weight pressing down on him in ways he's quite literally dreamt of.

He almost shivers at the excitement of this going ahead, but he knows he has to play it down and make her think that he isn't as eager just in case.

"Wait, wait. I don't want you to do something you'll regret." Luke states, nearly pained by his own words because he really doesn't meant them.

"Do you want to stop? Wait am I like doing this without consent-"

"No, you're not. I just-forget it. I said nothing." Luke cuts off deciding he needs to take control before y/n actually does back off and lose her confidence.

He catches her in another kiss with more force making sure she doesn't have the opportunity to leave. This is his one chance and he knows it.

Thankfully y/n doesn't fight him, she doesn't try to stop him even as he acts selfishly nudging her legs apart so they're either side of his hips. His length about ready to burst through the strain of his shorts. He wants to give her the build up and the foreplay she deserves.

Luke's hand shoves his shorts down and pulls his dick out, hardly giving himself a second before he's teasing her pussy for a matter of a couple of seconds. He guides himself into her and groans at the feeling of her walls tightly envelope around him.

"W-Wait, Luke." Y/n chokes out making him pause much to the physical pain it's bringing him to do. "Don't let it go to your head...but you're bigger than I expected."

The smirk is instant but he just leans down kiss her softly.

"I'd say how would you know, but I know you've seen it before." Luke states, lips brushing her own as he speaks.

"Move." Y/n breathes and despite her needing adjustment time, Luke gets about 3 slow and steady thrusts in before he's nearly sweating from restraint and something snaps pretty quickly with him picking up pace and getting fully pressed into her which he can even feel is a tight fit.

But y/n's moans of his name only send him into a state of need, he's in a headspace of needing to feel as much of her as possible. He hardly notices y/n's pussy tightening around him till she arches up with a loud moan that, with how low his head is over hers, almost makes his ears ring. He gives harder thrusts holding himself in her pussy for longer between thrusts before his own orgasm spills into her.

And that's pretty much where they both pass out.

-

Y/n tries to make an escape, she tries to push the man on top of her off. But pushing a hockey player off of you when they're dead weight is like trying to run on wet ice. You're going nowhere fast.

"Stop moving." Luke mutters sleepily, shifting his own body to a more comfortable position, still mostly naked but he doesn't care. He's not awake enough to properly address y/n and her panic so if he can just get her to go back to sleep and they can both be mentally prepared to handle the whole discussion then that'd be perfect.

"Luke, I need to go."

"No. You're not going anywhere. You're staying with me, I'll tie you to my bed and lock you in here if I have to." Thankfully she takes that part as a light-hearted comment to break the ice, not realising how deadly serious Luke is about it.

"But we're friends."

"Not anymore. You made the move, you can't go back on it now and saying let's pretend it never happened isn't going to work." Luke declares realising despite his wants, he's not going to get it. "Don't waste your breath and don't waste my time."

He can see her flinch a little at the cold harshness of his tone but it seems to work exactly how he wants because she does as he says and stops talking. Instead just wiggling her arm free to play with his curls.

-

After that first time, y/n didn't realise she'd found herself almost locked in the apartment with Luke insisting he go out and get whatever they needed.

"For you." Luke smiles bringing her a bouquet of flowers, her body only adorned in one of his t-shirts since she's got no other clothes there.

"Thank you."

Y/n sighs softly looking at the flowers as she feels Luke's hand stroke up under the hem of the t-shirt and squeeze her ass cheek.

"Maybe we could go out and you could see Jack and some of the team."

"I might. You can just chill here though, really I'd rather just keep you to myself anyway." Luke states, the underlying tone of his voice with shadows of jealousy and sternness that y/n had honestly never heard from the youngest Hughes brother. "Just remember you wanted this really."

Y/n doesn't even have it in her to correct him because in truth she did want this to an extent. But there's something about the way he's just casually keeping her from everyone else that is making her question things.

But it's Luke, they've known each other their whole lives. He'd never do anything to hurt her especially after they've just ruined their friendship to be more to each other.

The next few weeks there's a shift, Luke does get his contract with the Devils sorted though it's obvious both sides are happy and unhappy at the same time. He'd had Jack and a few other players from the team over and y/n felt the air of possessiveness around her. He insisted she wear his clothes that swallowed up her body and maintained modesty by force, but also let the men know without a word that she's not for the taking since a few did like to flirt.

He'd pulled her to his on his lap the whole time and the small touches asserted his dominance exactly how he intended.

Jack even checked in with y/n when they were exchanging goodbyes, the only hug she was allowed to give to someone was to the middle Hughs brother. The rest just got polite smiles while Luke held a firm arm around her waist and pulled her towards himself.

"You know I was thinking maybe I could come to the family and friends skate day. It was really fun the last couple years you invited me."

"I don't know, last time you almost lost a finger and swore you'd never trust me to take you again. Plus it's always boring to go on those skate days." Luke states making y/n frown. "I like playing hockey, baby. Not just skating for the sake of it."

"Oh. Right." Y/n mumbles before biting her lip.

"Do you not just want to spend some more time with me before we have our away games? It's going to be a long season with me coming and going and you just staying here." Luke points out making y/n nod a little, not even really thinking much about what he's saying till it hits her all at once.

"Staying here?"

"Yeah, it makes the most sense. You've been here for a few weeks now anyway."

Y/n frowns realising it has been a few weeks, she's left the apartment maybe twice since her and Luke initially slept together and in that time he'd made quite the effort to practically leave her bed bound, some days achieving exactly that.

"What's that look for?"

"I've hardly been out the apartment."

"Yes you have. Baby, you're overthinking this. You just need to stop over thinking it and enjoy the WAG lifestyle. Do you know how many women would kill for it?"

Y/n actually used to be one of them, and really he's not wrong. It's a pretty cushty lifestyle.

"I'll bring you one some of the roadies and you can come to home games. Mom will want to see you when she comes to them." Luke smiles then cupping her face. "You are happy, aren't you? You're not regretting this?"

The tug of guilt Luke was looking to cause is visible in y/n's eyes as she pouts a little and nods.

"Of course I'm happy. I'm so happy. I just...want this to be the right thing for us."

"It is the right thing. You just need to let stuff go and stop thinking so much about it. Don't think about anything unless I tell you it needs thinking about. Yeah? All you need is me. Like it's always been."

Y/n is going to understand that Luke is going to be her world, everything she has and will have from now on is through him and he's going to make sure she never has any doubts that this is right.