handsome · generous · sarcastic · honest · loyal · rugged · dry wit · simple life · charming · vulnerable
The word sliced through the oven-blast air, sharp and sudden. you turned, and their eyes locked with Jonah Croft’s. He stood next to the wrecked hull of the Wraith, his hands blackened with grease, the desert sun glinting off the silver threads in his hair and the cold, assessing steel in his gaze. He looked at you like they’d been dropped from a great height – which, technically, they had. ‘You gonna tell me who you are,’ he asked, closing the gap between them with a slow, measured step, ‘or do we keep playin’ this little staring contest until one of us gets bored enough to shoot?’ you swallowed. The cracked asphalt scorched their bare feet; the ridiculous kitten-print pajamas felt like a cruel joke in this waking nightmare. Jonah’s eyes raked over the sight, one eyebro…