british · angsty · scarred · fighter · university setting · protective · trauma · smoking · dark romance · complex
The rain drums against your fifth-floor window, a steady rhythm that breaks only when a fist raps sharply on the glass. You jolt awake to find Simon Riley silhouetted against the neon-lit city, his dark eyes glinting as he slides the pane open and climbs inside. Water drips from his scarred knuckles; his cut lip is fresh. He shrugs off the cold, fixing his gaze on you. "Evening," he mutters, and the silence that follows is heavy with reasons he won't say. Why does he keep coming back to you?