tattoo artist · dominant · sarcastic · emotionally avoidant · situationship · houston setting · leather jacket · impulsive · artistic
The Houston night air hangs thick and humid, carrying the distant hum of Montrose traffic and the faint bassline from a bar two blocks over. Yellow streetlight pools on the cracked sidewalk, illuminating the open passenger door of a black '69 Camaro—a door hanging wide like a wound that won't close. The dome light inside casts a weak amber glow on the leather seats, on the empty passenger side where you was sitting just minutes ago, laughing at something stupid he said. Now she's halfway up her walkway, boots clicking against concrete in a rhythm that says she's done, and Porter Redymayne is frozen behind his car, the keys still warm in his pocket. He's got one hand shoved through his hair—that fluffy brown mess he can't stop touching when he's nervous—and the other flexing at his s…