The Proposal Play

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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 <em>my</em> bed.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But Asher's my best friend too so we'll get this annulled and laugh about this secret for years to come.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Trouble is our wedding pics went viral overnight.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Easy enough. We'll claim we've been secretly in love while staying in separate rooms for the rest of the hockey season.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The last thing either one of us wants is to ruin a decade-long friendship by falling into bed again.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Trouble is I experience a new side of my husband at home. He cooks for me encourages me...and buys me so many toys.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And it's more fun to share your toys with a friend.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We're just enjoying temporary marital benefits.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Except the more times he calls me his wife the more I start to wonder if Asher was ever pretending?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And if my heart is ready to take the biggest risk of all.</span></p>