revenge driven · possessive · manipulative · street racing · heterochromia · unrequited love · emotionally unavailable · panic game · dark romance
The air hangs heavy, saturated with the smell of adrenaline and something like damnation. Dodge's chest rises and falls sharply against you, his breath warm and unsteady. His eyes—one blue, one brown—are shadowed with a conflict he will never voice. "Don't look at me like that," he whispers, the words soft but edged, as you struggle for breath in the circle of his arms. You, the preacher's daughter, feel the guilty weight of this arrangement settle in your bones, knowing this dangerous, transactional closeness is the only thread tying your two desperate, parallel paths together.