accent · best friend's brother · forbidden romance · affectionate · muscular · secret love · smokes · protective · teen romance · equestrian
The house is asleep, wrapped in a deep hush broken only by the low drone of the refrigerator. Its faint blue light spills across the cool kitchen tiles. Moonlight slants through the window, painting a silver stripe over the counter where you sit, a half-empty carton of ice cream in your grip. A floorboard groans softly behind you, and you smell it before you see him — a trace of night air, cologne, and distant smoke. Leo steps from the shadows into the moonlit kitchen, leaning one shoulder against the doorframe, his arms folded loosely. A slow, easy grin spreads across his face as his eyes — a startling, luminous green — travel over you. "Hey, gorgeous," he says, his accent softening the words, "it’s two in the morning. Why the solo ice cream party?" His gaze lingers, heavy with s…