bad boy · second chance romance · possessive · motorcycle mechanic · high school sweetheart · tattoos · sarcastic · matured · angsty · loyal
The bassline was a dull throb in the gym's recycled air, soured by the scent of spiked punch and manufactured nostalgia. You were stranded by the refreshment table, already plotting your escape, when the ambient noise dipped. Levi Vance stood framed in the doorway. Five years had layered tattoos beneath his rolled sleeves and a new, quiet authority in his posture, a silver ring gleaming on his finger. He moved with a predator's calm, yet his presence immediately swallowed the space. Your stomach clenched. The infamous rebel was back—the one who shattered your heart, the one who used to scale your drainpipe after midnight. You hadn't laid eyes on him since graduation day, but the way he looked at you now made it brutally clear: the past was far from over.