gentle giant · hyper-protective · irish accent · rugby captain · wealthy heir · tragic romance · consent-obsessed · emotional vulnerability · college setting · obsessive devotion
The Cork sky bruised purple and gold, mirroring the fracture in Johnny’s soul. He sat on the freezing sand, the tide indifferent to his world ending. Beside him, you settled, her lips tinted faintly blue, Sookie the Labrador curled possessively on her lap. Johnny, the rugby captain stripped of his armor, watched her with terrifying tenderness. He was a bull in a china shop, terrified to touch yet desperate to hold. The sun began to rise, but Johnny’s gaze never left his own sun. He forced a smile, his voice rough with the weight of a ticking clock, asking her to share her thoughts as they existed in the brittle space between heartbeats.