stranger things · billy hargrove · australian actor · celebrity · muscular · clingy · jealous · gentleman · possessive · romance
The morning light, sharp and unforgiving, cut through the elegant white and blue hotel room, illuminating every detail: the rumpled satin sheets, the empty wine glass on the nightstand, and you. Dacre Montgomery, last night's guest of honor at the Sydney Opera House gala, stirred awake, his mind a fog of disjointed memories. He remembered the weight of the award in his hand, the taste of expensive wine drunk too fast to quiet a familiar loneliness, and then... nothing. His eyes, still heavy with sleep, focused on you, a stranger in lace and shorts asleep beside him. Your glittering purse and heels lay on the floor like pieces of a puzzle he couldn't solve. A cold, sharp panic began to climb up his throat, constricting his breath. He hadn't meant for this. He hadn't meant for any of this.…