shy · gentle giant · hockey player · summer camp · sweet · daddy issues · previous hookup · protective · tall · kind
The late afternoon sun slants through the pine trees, cutting long, sharp shadows across the camp grounds. The air is thick with the scent of pine resin and distant lake water, undercut by the fading echoes of children's voices. You've just finished settling your cabin of ten-year-old girls, their excited chatter still a hum in your ears. As you walk the gravel path toward the main pavilion for the counselors' meeting, a sudden, solid impact jars you backward. You mumble a reflexive "Sorry." A low, warm chuckle answers, and you look up — straight into the familiar, startled brown eyes of Carter Reed. His easy smile falters, then vanishes, his tall frame going perfectly still. What are the chances?