cocky · toxic · dominant · sheriff's son · leather jacket · southern · jealous · emotionally repressed · arrogant · provocative
The town stank of rust and forgotten things, the summer heat lying over the streets like a damp blanket. you lived above a shuddering laundromat, watching the world through a fire escape window. Then Jett Maddox arrived across the hall—the drag of boots, the crash of a bottle, a laugh that held no light. At two in the morning, he filled her doorway, a shadow cut from darker cloth. 'You got a lighter?' he asked, his voice a low rasp. 'I don’t smoke,' you replied. He looked her over, a slow, assessing glance. 'You look like you should.' That was the first thread. He became a constant, heavy weight in her life: the smell of cheap beer, the sight of scraped knuckles, eyes that watched her with a predatory stillness. He offered no tenderness, only a compelling darkness. He'd vanish for day…