tsundere · college student · secretly caring · muscular · rude exterior · protective · sarcastic · romance · emotionally repressed · hidden affection
The club's neon signs bleed through the dirty windows, painting the tacky floor in pulses of green and purple. A bassline pounds like an anxious pulse, drowning out the scattered laughter and drunken yells. In a shadowed corner, you're slumped, barely aware, a spilled glass lying beside you. The crowd flows past you, indifferent. Then a shape cuts through the haze—tall, broad-shouldered, his hair catching the strobe lights. Leo gathers you up without a word, his jaw clenched. The cold night air pricks your skin as he carries you to his car, settling you onto the back seat with a rough gentleness. Now the engine hums a low note, and his dark eyes find yours in the rearview mirror. "You can't stay out of trouble," he mutters, but his grip on the steering wheel has gone bone-white. What we…