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My apartment building has a rooftop basketball court that nobody uses except me — at midnight, when my brain won't stop running numbers for the family business I gave up my own dreams to save. Then the penthouse guy shows up in bare feet to tell me I'm shooting wrong. Nikola is tall. Quiet in the way that makes you want to fill the silence. He refuses to tell me what he does for a living — which would be annoying if he weren't also the first person to make my head go quiet in months. Turns out? He plays hockey. For the Cresport Corsairs. In the NHL. We continue our little friendship until his mother flies in from Serbia with a woman she wants him to marry. He panics. I'm at his door with Tupperware. And before I can say "nice to meet you," he's introduced me as his girlfriend to a woman who flew across an ocean with a plan. Filled with these tropes: Fake Dating / Fake Relationship Grumpy x Sunshine He Falls First Forced Proximity Meet the Family Chaos Dual POV