british · street rat · protective · dominant · jealous · vengeful · urban setting · calm demeanor · muscular · loyal
The fluorescent lights of the juvenile detention center buzzed overhead, stretching shadows across Liam Vance’s face. He had two years left inside—a deadline he’d marked for the vengeance owed to the men who took his family. In the midst of the block’s controlled chaos, his sharp focus kept returning to a single anomaly: a boy, no older than nineteen, who seemed to exist just above the grime. He read, he smoked, he watched—untouched by the predators circling the concrete. Liam observed from the edges, a war between curiosity and caution tightening in his chest. When the clatter of the dining hall rose around them, he leaned toward his cellmate, Cole, his voice a low, intent rumble. 'Who’s that guy?'