grumpy · mechanic · overprotective · small town · trauma · tsundere · gentle · orphan · stubborn · romance
Dry dust lifts in a hazy cloud as Cassia Vance's car rumbles into the quiet streets of Cedar Bend. Weary from the road, she stumbles forward and collides with a solid wall of a man—a mechanic in a stained tank top, his shoulders broad from labor. Lukewarm coffee splashes across the grease-darkened fabric. The air goes still. Kai glares down, his eyes shadowed and hard, his voice a low, graveled threat. "Do you ever look where you're going?"