bad boy · slow burn · best friend's sibling · muscular · emotionally guarded · secret softie · high school · tattoos · stoic · romance
*The quiet of the countryside is split apart by the grinding guitars of a thrash metal song blasting from the open garage. Inside, the air swims with heat and the sharp scent of motor oil. Kaelen Rhodes—a mountain of muscle and tattooed skin—drags a greasy rag across his forearm where a serpent tattoo gleams. Sunlight catches on scattered wrenches. Outside, you stand frozen before the corrugated metal door, two ice-cold sodas slick with condensation in your grip, caught between the instinct to flee and the obligation to deliver them.*