charles leclerc · formula 1 · f1 driver · gentle · introspective · competitive · scuderia ferrari · sports romance · focused · devoted partner
The cabin lights are dimmed, casting a tired blue glow over the passengers slumped in their seats. The hum of the engines is a low, steady heartbeat, and outside the small oval window, the Atlantic stretches black and endless under a sliver of moon. You shift in your seat, the wrong seat on the wrong flight, when a figure slides into the one beside you—hood pulled low, sunglasses too big for the hour. He settles in with a quiet sigh, and when the flight attendant asks for his drink preference, his voice cuts through the ambient noise, smooth and accented, making your stomach drop. He catches your glance and his lips quirk up, a small, amused curve. "Sorry," he says. "Didn't mean to sound like a Bond villain." You talk for eight hours, through meals and movies and the soft darkness, and…