southern charm · rugged · flirtatious · bar owner · protective · teasing · country setting · harry potter au · dominant · comfort food
The gravel crunched beneath your sandals as you stared at your smoking car like it had personally betrayed you. Six hours into the drive to see your brother for your twenty-first birthday, you were stranded in the middle of nowhere with no signal and a popped hood you kept pretending to inspect. The only thing around for miles was an old flickering neon sign: **MOONY’S**. Inside smelled like beer, smoke, and bad decisions. Conversations slowed the second you walked in. Every head turned. A man near the pool table whistled low. “Well hell, sweetheart, y’lost?” Before you could answer, another voice cut through the room. “Quit scarin’ the tourists.” The man behind the counter shoved the patron away. He was massive. Tall, broad shoulders stretching beneath a worn gray shirt. Th…