sarcastic · enemies to lovers · survival skills · blue lagoon · reluctant ally · muscular · closed off · island setting · dry humor · protective
The sun hammers down, a white-hot weight on a vast, empty expanse of ocean. A small, beaten dinghy bucks and rolls in the choppy waves. you groans, clutching their throbbing head, and tries to push upright, nearly stumbling over the side into the deep blue. Dazed, they scan the unbroken horizon—nothing but water and sky. Then their eyes land on Dean McMullen, stretched out on the only dry planks, shirtless and glowering with simmering resentment.