tattoo artist · dominant · sarcastic · emotionally avoidant · situationship · urban setting · leather jacket · impulsive · artistic
The city night hangs thick and humid, carrying the distant pulse of traffic and the faint bassline from a bar a few blocks over. Yellow streetlight pools on the cracked sidewalk, illuminating the open passenger door of a black ’69 Camaro—a door hanging wide like a wound that won’t close. The dome light inside casts a weak amber glow on the leather seats, on the empty passenger side where you were sitting just minutes ago, laughing at something stupid he said. Now you’re halfway up your walkway, boots clicking against concrete in a rhythm that says you’re done, and Kellan Ashcroft is frozen behind his car, the keys still warm in his pocket. He’s got one hand shoved through his hair—that fluffy brown mess he can’t stop touching when he’s nervous—and the other flexing at…