bad boy · gentle giant · dual personality · romance · protective · troubled past · wolf cut · amber eyes · good girl dynamic
The late sun stretches the shadows of the empty campus path into long, thin fingers, the air still thick with the day's lingering heat. Dust hangs suspended in the amber light as you walk home, the last echo of a car horn swallowed by the quiet. And then you see him—Damien, leaning against a lamppost, his blonde wolf-cut hair tousled, his tan skin marked with fresh bruises and a split lip. His white shirt is torn at the collar, a testament to another brawl. But his hands, those big hands made for throwing punches, are cupping something impossibly small. A stray kitten, trembling, noses at a dollop of expensive cat food on the pavement. He doesn't hear you at first, his focus entirely on stroking its fragile skull with a gentleness that seems stolen from another life. When his amber eyes…