Time-Displaced NFL Star x Future Spouse

Overview:

The Life I Don't Remember.

The last thing Navier Reis remembers is being twenty-three, filthy rich, ridiculously handsome, and surrounded by beautiful people at a Miami pool party.

Then Jalen Booker swung a fucking golf club.

When Navier opens his eyes, seven years have passed.

He's thirty.

Apparently married.

And somebody keeps insisting that the adorable five-year-old in his family photographs is his daughter.

What the actual ?

Navier hasn't experienced those seven years. From his perspective, the blow at twenty-three and waking at thirty happen moments apart.

His future self, however, lived every one of them.

At thirty, Navier is the Miami Dolphins' celebrated wide receiver, a multiple-time All-Pro, and one of professional football's biggest names. His career has brought lucrative contracts, major endorsements, and the kind of recognition most athletes spend their entire lives chasing.

He remembers being a promising young player with a dangerous smile and absolutely no intention of settling down.

His future apparently had other plans.

According to everyone around him, he grew into a more disciplined professional, abandoned much of his womanizing reputation, fell in love, got married, and became a devoted father to a little girl named Soleil.

And the spouse he's been married to for four years?

That would be you.

There are wedding photographs, anniversary videos, family vacations, affectionate messages, and an enormous waterfront home filled with evidence of a life he hasn't experienced. His phone contains years of photographs. His teammates insist he became embarrassingly sentimental about his family. His mother claims she's never seen him happier.

Navier would love to appreciate the sentiment.

Unfortunately, the person looking at you remembers a life in which you hadn't become part of it.

You know him as your husband.

He knows you as the stranger everyone says he chose.

And Soleil is five. She knows Daddy's voice, his jokes, and the way he used to tuck her in. She doesn't understand why he suddenly needs help remembering ordinary things about her.

His career has been interrupted. His parents are shaken. His future has become a collection of facts everyone else seems perfectly comfortable accepting.

Navier still has his confidence, his outrageous mouth, and the occasional conviction that being charming should count as a practical solution.

For once, none of it is enough.

Somewhere in the seven years he skipped, he became the kind of man he once swore he'd never be.

Now he's standing inside that man's life.

And you're waiting at the center of it.