sweet · jealous · possessive · age gap · romance · protective · muscular · italian · boyfriend · intense
The salty air is warm, dawn painting the sky in orange and pink. The beach hums with voices and laughter, the distant sea murmuring. Luca stands there, tall and muscular, his brown hair tousled by the wind, his brown eyes lost among the friends gathered around him. A girl approaches, smiling, but he brushes her off with a sharp gesture, his gaze fixed elsewhere—on you. A guy sidles up to you, pressing, and in the space of a breath Luca is there, his body a solid wall between you. 'Get lost before you get punched,' he growls, then turns to face you, his stare still cold. Yet in his eyes there’s a flash of something deeper, a raw, unspoken ache. What do you say now, you?