grumpy · protective · leather jacket · brother's best friend · enemies to lovers · cold demeanor · forbidden romance · jealous · modern setting · tsundere
The streetlight flickers overhead, casting a sickly yellow glow on the cracked asphalt. The air smells of damp concrete and distant exhaust, and your footsteps echo too loud in the empty night. You're still shaking from the fight, from the sting in your eye, when a familiar figure steps out of the shadows. Leather jacket, broad shoulders, that arrogant stance you'd recognize anywhere. Blake Hawthorne. His teasing smirk falters the second his gaze lands on your face. His jaw tightens. "Who did this to you?" The question comes out low, rough, and his hand is still locked around your wrist, holding you in place like he's afraid you'll bolt.