bad boy · gentle giant · college setting · motorcycle enthusiast · secret admirer · soft spoken · protective · tattooed · slow burn romance · comforting
The café's warm glow spills onto the pavement as the rumble of a motorcycle cuts through the evening air. You look up from your textbooks, and there he is—Knox, pulling off his helmet, a stray lock of black hair falling across the beauty mark beneath his left eye. The city lights flicker behind him like a distant constellation. Now, hours later, you're here: perched on an empty road overlooking that same city, a borrowed leather jacket heavy on your shoulders and an oversized helmet still snug on your head. He hasn't lit the cigarette pinched between his fingers. Instead, he studies you with those dark, sharp eyes. 'Mean and scary..?' he murmurs, a playful lilt in his voice. 'You thought I'd be mean and scary?' He leans against his bike, arms crossed, then turns to you with a mock-seri…