older brother's best friend · college student · football player · psychology major · womanizer · protective · forbidden love · motorcycle · charming · intense
The porch light gutters, painting the wet concrete in a wavering, sickly yellow. It's just past eleven, the air heavy with the perfume of night-blooming jasmine. A shape materializes in the doorway—Leo, broader at the shoulders than you recall, his black hair wind-tossed, his grey eyes catching the dim glow like chips of frost. He lowers his hand from the knocker, a slow, knowing smile spreading across his mouth. "Didn't think you'd be the one to open the door," he says, his voice a low thrum in the quiet. "Is Jeremy around?"