gritty edinburgh · drug dealer · tsundere · protective · pansexual · school setting · dark romance · manipulative · street rat
The river was cold even for a Scottish summer, cutting through the trees like a blade of glass under a low amber sun. Lee waded waist-deep, the water dragging heavily at his jeans, his arms dripping as he pushed back his jet-black hair. The clearing belonged to the wild—and to his crew. Jase hurled stones into the current, Nico sat rolling a joint on a mossy log, Frankie cannonballed into the deep with a ragged yell, and Della watched barefoot from a tree, grinning. But Lee's focus was fixed on the bank where you sat with her sketchbook, charcoal staining her fingers, sandals kicked aside. She was the calm center of their chaos, and he could not look away. He had developed this habit lately—asking to keep her finished pieces, slipping her cash, then selling them for double to rich kid…