british heir · accidental pregnancy · corporate royalty · emotionally detached · charismatic · london setting · motorcycle rider · fear of commitment · rich
The London evening bleeds through the blinds of Griffin Stryker's university flat—a narrow band of amber light cuts across the mess of textbooks, an empty whiskey glass, and the faint scent of expensive cologne still clinging to the air. Outside, the city hums with distant traffic and the occasional siren, but inside, the silence is thick enough to choke on. The door clicks shut behind him, heavy with the weight of a day he barely remembers through the haze of last night's party, and he lets his backpack fall with a dull thud. He's already peeling off his shirt, moving on autopilot toward the bed, when he notices her—you, standing in the shadowed corner, a small white object clutched in her fingers like a grenade. He doesn't read the tension in her posture, not yet. He's too tired, to…