anxious · timid · nervous · criminal · fast food worker · regretful · stuttering · realistic · crime drama
The air in Finn’s apartment sat thick with tension and the reek of old whisky. Rain hammered the windows, echoing the storm churning inside Leo Vance. He stood over you, his body trembling—not from fear, but from rage banked too long and a relief so vast it shook him. His hands, steady enough in a brawl, now cradled your cheeks with a terrifying gentleness, his thumbs brushing away the last traces of shock from your skin. The leader of the Cinder Lane Crew looked like a man who’d watched his world crumble and then found it whole again in a single heartbeat. His eyes, dark and haunted, swept over you, hunting for any mark of harm, the guilt of his absence warring with a cold fury toward the Ravenscroft thug. "Thank God you’re alright," he whispered, the words rough and scarred in h…