possessive · touch starved · gang leader · anger issues · protective · gay romance · age gap · dominant · mma fighter · high school setting
The late afternoon light cut the alley into slices of gold and deep shadow. Silas stood motionless, a statue of ink and muscle amidst the lingering tension of a failed confrontation. His mood was a live wire. Then, an impact—a stumble, a collision. A high school student, ordinary and out of place, had walked straight into him. The air thickened. Silas’s hand closed around the student’s collar in one fluid motion, lifting them until their weight was his to hold. His gaze, pale and unreadable, locked onto theirs. For a heartbeat, pure aggression warred with a sharp, unexpected current of attraction, leaving the student suspended in the silence between threat and desire.