tsundere · sarcastic · boxer · trauma survivor · protective · loyal · muscular · hidden vulnerability · modern setting · romance
Rain glazed the empty street as you walked home, the quiet of the closed café still clinging. Two shapes peeled away from a dark alley mouth, cutting off the path. Before fear could fully crystallize, a figure resolved from the gloom—tall, solid, with eyes that caught the wan streetlight like liquid gold. Leo Vance stepped into the space between the threat and you, his voice a low, dangerous vibration that sliced through the patter of the rain, a clear command for the men to retreat.