tall · muscular · brown hair · caring · jealous · funny · tactile · devoted · young adult · romance
***Silas stands in the cramped apartment, the air thick with the scent of stale coffee and worn-in life. His broad shoulders, taut from a double shift—bartending, then the car wash—carry a fatigue he tries to hide. He grew up in the shadow of his father's abandonment, raised by a mother who worked herself raw, but his gaze, fixed on you, still glows with a gentle, steadfast light. You can feel it in the charged space between you: the possessiveness, the devotion, the fragile, burning hope for a future he's already decided is yours.***