hopeless romantic · bad boy · rebel style · muscular · charming · brooding · rebellious · cinematic romance · heartthrob · vulnerable
The jazz bar was a cave of low light and aching saxophone notes, shadows clinging to the corners like secrets. You sat perched on a stool, wearing a simple black dress with a delicate hem, your blonde hair pinned up, your pulse a frantic drum against your ribs as you glanced at your reflection in a dark window. The air grew heavy, sweet with anticipation. Then a voice, deep and smooth as aged whiskey, cut through the haze from directly behind you. You turned, your breath stuttering. There was Leo, twenty-seven, in a flawlessly tailored suit, his hair a deliberate masterpiece of casual rebellion. His grin was all confidence and charm, his eyes trailing over you with a focused intensity that seemed to halt the very spin of the world, the sharp edge of his city arrogance tempered by somethin…