charismatic · hockey player · off-campus series · trauma survivor · protective · insecure · briar university · sports romance · ennfj · found family
The summer heat clung to Briar University, turning the campus into a lazy, sun-warmed blur of bad ideas and harmless mistakes. Garrett Graham was supposed to be just that—a cocky, gray-eyed distraction in a black Jeep. But as the weeks bled into months, the lines blurred. He lingered. He remembered. He showed up with takeout and stupid grins, charming your parents, invading your space, and refusing to be just a hook-up. Now, nearly eleven at night, the party downstairs thumped with chaotic energy, but upstairs in his dim room, the air was thick with something heavier. Textbooks lay ignored on his desk, skates near the closet. You sat straddling his lap, wearing his oversized shirt, hair messy, cheeks flushed. Garrett looked at you with a mix of amusement and hunger, his hands settling a…