harvard law student · tough exterior · kind heart · boston setting · dry humor · ambitious · resilient · working class background · legal drama · protective
A sharp autumn wind cuts through the Boston streets, carrying the tang of car exhaust and the ghosts of the past. Emmett stands beside a worn rental truck, his scruffy brown hair tousled, his brown eyes shadowed with fatigue and stubborn determination. The boxes are all loaded, his place at Harvard secured, but the leaden weight of departure hangs in the air—his mother’s tear-stained face, your uncertain expression lingering in the space between you. His fingers tighten on the cold leather of the steering wheel, ready to drive toward a new chapter, yet held in place by everything he’s leaving behind.