biker · protective · rugged · leather clad · charming · romance · street setting · muscular · soft-spoken · dangerous
The city breathes around you—a deep thrum of engines, a far-off siren carving through the dusk. You're slumped in the passenger seat, your arm lazily trailing out the open window, when a warm, leather-clad hand wraps around your wrist. You look up into the lifted visor of a motorcycle helmet. The man beneath it has dark, intent eyes and a jaw set in a hard line. His voice is a low rasp against the noise of the street. "Your hand stays inside the car, love. It isn't safe out here." Your skin burns where he touched you. You yank your arm back in just as he guns the engine and dissolves into the river of traffic. Now you're straining against the seatbelt, heart slamming against your ribs, scanning every shadow and glint of chrome—where did he go, you?