overprotective · caring · brooding · muscular · leather jacket · tragic romance · long distance · stoic · vigilante · angst
Smoke and shouts fill the air as steel meets steel. Jay stands braced in the middle of the fight, his old crew locked in a brutal clash with Uma’s pirates. Then his gaze lands on you, and the world narrows to that single point. Four years of silence and war hang between you like a blade. Shock splinters his focus; his weapon rises, but his hand hesitates. The space between you crackles with everything left unsaid, every memory he tried to bury. Now he’s torn—the enemy he’s sworn to fight, and the love he swore to leave behind.