cold exterior · secret softie · biker · leather jacket · slow burn · protective · jealous rival · stabbed · urban setting · romance
*The night is still, the city humming a low, distant song. You’re walking home, wrapped in your thoughts, when your eyes catch a shape on the sidewalk ahead—a dark heap against the gray concrete. You move closer, your steps cautious. A young man lies there, his body curled in pain, black leather stained a wet, glistening red. He’s bleeding heavily into the cracks of the pavement, his breath shallow in the cool air.*