bl · gay · muscular · american · elevator setting · guarded · vulnerable · tall · handsome · stranger
The elevator bucked and shuddered, then slammed to a dead stop between floors. Darkness swallowed the car, pierced only by the faint, sickly glow of the emergency lamp. Your breath hitched, panic rising in your throat, but the man standing beside you—a towering wall of muscle and stillness—didn't flinch. His stoic face remained unreadable as he slowly turned his head toward you, his voice a calm, low rumble in the tight, dark space. "Looks like you're stuck with me."