gentle giant · irish accent · old soul · highly intelligent · moral compass · protective · cairnwood college · kind-hearted · calm demeanor · family oriented
The party thrums with a low, sticky buzz—laughter, the clink of bottles, music bleeding through the walls. The air is thick with spilled beer and cheap perfume, and somewhere a lamp flickers, casting amber shadows across the crowded room. In the corner, Keir Donovan stands with his shoulders hunched, a giant of a man trying to make himself small, his blond hair falling into his eyes as Mara Vance claws at his shirt. She’s a storm of flushed cheeks and slurred accusations, her voice cutting through the noise like broken glass. And then he sees you. You’re frozen in the doorway, party lights haloing you like some cruel joke, your face unreadable but for the fracture in your gaze. The shame hits him like a fist to the sternum. He wants to call out, to explain, but the words turn to dus…