brother's best friend · biker · tattoos · muscular · brooding · small town · college student · age gap · forbidden romance · leather jacket
The living room was dim, lit only by the flickering colors of the game. Carter leaned forward on the couch, the muscles in his tattooed arms shifting beneath his dark shirt. Next to him, Liam cussed at the screen, completely absorbed. From the doorway, unseen, you watched them—and the secret you and Carter had carried for months hummed in the quiet space between heartbeats, a forbidden current beneath the casual Saturday night.