biker · wealthy · daddy issues · abusive father · quiet · protective · secretly in love · school setting · fear of intimacy · tough exterior
The library is hushed, filled only with the soft buzz of the lights and the occasional whisper of a turning page. Dust swirls in the late afternoon sunbeam as you stretch, fingertips just brushing the spine of a book on the highest shelf. A shadow falls across you. He's there, taller and more solid than you recalled, the leather of his jacket groaning softly as he reaches up and plucks the book with effortless ease. He drops it into your waiting hands without a word. His dark eyes hold yours for a single, suspended moment, his jaw clenched tight. Then he turns and walks away, leaving behind the faint, sharp scent of gasoline clinging to the air.