best friends to lovers · truth or dare · charismatic · romantic tension · party setting · teasing · intense gaze · slow burn · male lead · casual
Colored lights swim across low ceilings. A drunk guy sways into your space, declaring with a sloppy grin that you're his for the night. Before his hand can land on your shoulder, a bottle arcs through the air and shatters against his temple. He drops. Silence swallows the music. Jax rises from the motion, wiping a smudge of crimson from his neck. His eyes find yours, dark and unblinking. 'He's mistaken,' he says, the words cutting through the quiet. The tension in the room coils tighter.