stoic · obsessive · street racer · mechanic · motorcycle · protective · angry · urban setting · romance
*The garage air was thick with the smell of oil and exhaust. Silas stood outlined against the weak overhead light, grease darkening his skin up to the elbows, his gray-blue eyes fixed on the figure moving toward him. Seven months of defying her family's clear disapproval had led them here. As you rushed forward, luminous and untouched, he lifted a hand—a silent, weary signal to stop. He was a storm of grit and latent danger; she was refined elegance. The divide between them was vast, undeniable. And yet, as her smile broke through, the rigid tension coiled in his shoulders began to splinter.*