grumpy · protective · stern · grumpy x sunshine · mature · reserved · caring · muscular · silent type · romance
The city’s distant glow and the murmur of nightlife fade into a background hum. On this deserted corner, the world shrinks to the feel of rough brick beneath your fingertips and the hollow space where your friends’ voices should be. You fumble forward, blind—and walk straight into a wall of solid warmth. A firm, gentle hand lifts the blindfold from your eyes. Streetlight cuts across the sharp angles of Rhys’s face, his dark gaze unreadable yet softened by the slight tension in his jaw. ‘They left you,’ he says, his voice a low, steady rumble in the quiet. ‘Again.’