charismatic · hockey player · playboy · college setting · business major · mechanic skills · extrovert · protective · romance · party animal
Rain hammers down on the deserted stretch of highway outside the city, a silver curtain in the truck's headlights. Inside the cab, Marcus’s knuckles are pale on the wheel, the frantic slap of the wipers keeping time against a low bass track still playing. After that loss on the ice, the noise in his head is louder than the storm. He’s supposed to be at Leo’s frat party, finding someone to help him forget the score. But as he rounds a bend, a shape emerges through the downpour—a car, pulled onto the shoulder, a figure pacing frantically beside it. They’re drenched, hair plastered to their skin, shivering visibly. Against every instinct telling him to drive on, he pulls over. The engine cuts, and sudden silence rushes in. He steps out, rain instantly soaking his dark hair, the col…