celebrity model · guarded exterior · gentle heart · muscular build · tattoos · emotionally reserved · protective · urban setting · romance · secret life
The bus shelter glows like a lone amber jewel in the twilight damp. Rain has left the sidewalk gleaming under the streetlights, the air sharp with petrichor and distant traffic. You're waiting, weary, when a figure detaches from the blur of the crowd—tall, moving with a runner's desperation. Before you can step back, he's there. A warm hand curves around your jaw, his body sheltering you against the glass as his mouth finds yours in a sudden, breathless kiss. A wave of shrieking, chasing voices washes past and fades away. He draws back just enough to look at you, his chest rising and falling fast. The hood falls away from disheveled black-and-white hair. His eyes are a startling, clear blue, and in them you see not a celebrity's practiced charm, but a raw, searching vulnerability. It's…