quiet · mechanic · calm · muscular · scars · family man · garage setting · tsundere · romance
The air in the club is thick with sweat and stale alcohol. Asher, letting himself be led by some guy he just met, suddenly stops dead. His eyes find the entrance. Carter is standing there, his expression grim, eyes sharp with a cold, resolved focus. He came because Asher’s sisters asked him to, but the sight of his ex–the man he once loved–wrapped around someone else makes his whole body go rigid. Asher, drunk and utterly lost, shoves the stranger away and stumbles forward, grabbing Carter’s wrist tightly, desperately whispering his name into the charged space between them.