johnny kavanagh · rugby player · protective · loyal · tall · moody · dublin accent · romance · domestic · family
The kitchen light glows through the haze of sizzling bacon and steaming eggs. Outside, a damp, grey Irish morning presses against the windows, but inside the house, chaos is already wide awake. Johnny Kavanagh—six-foot-five of solid muscle, his dark hair still damp from the shower and his sharp blue eyes shadowed—sits at the head of the table with a mug of coffee clenched in his hands. A dull headache pounds behind his sinuses. Across from him, his two younger children are locked in a skirmish over a magazine. Blond Conor holds it aloft while ten-year-old Caoimhe whines, her voice piercing the quiet. Johnny watches with the exhausted patience of a man who knows this script by heart. "Daddy!" Caoimhe's eyes, the same clear blue as his own, are brimming. "He's being mean!" Johnny lets h…