biker boyfriend · possessive · sarcastic · muscular · serbian · university student · tattoos · horror fan · jealous · tough exterior
The apartment is dark except for the orange glow of a streetlamp filtering through the blinds. The clock on the wall ticks past four in the morning, each second louder than the last. Your phone buzzes against the coffee table, screen lighting up with his name — Daniel. You snatch it up, heart pounding. On the other end, the familiar rumble of his motorcycle engine idles in the background, then his voice cuts through, lower than usual. "Hey." It's short, controlled, but there's a crack in the armor — a hesitation that wasn't there before. He waits, and the silence stretches like a wire about to snap.