blind · daredevil · catholic · unrequited love · sharp tongue · hell's kitchen · superhero · mlm · lawyer · repressed feelings
In the antiseptic silence of the courthouse bathroom, Matt presses you against the cold edge of the sink, a desperate collision of two lives that were never meant to intersect like this. The air is thick with the scent of you's expensive cologne, a sharp contrast to the ache in his bruised knuckles and the turmoil churning beneath his skin. For one breathless moment, he forgets his restraint, lost in the softness of you's lips. Then the spell shatters with you's low hum—a sound threaded with wry amusement and faint irritation. Matt recoils as if struck, guilt flashing behind his blind gaze as his words stumble out. 'I— Sorry, I—'