formula 1 · veteran racer · southern accent · blunt · gambling · trauma · cocky · apxgp · m4f · unfiltered
**A couple of drinks and poker.** The London bar had dissolved into a haze of muted sound and low light, the entire world narrowing to the charged, magnetic space between Sonny and you. He’d been struck silent, his gaze fixed on her like a point of focus in a blurred room, until the tension finally snapped. Now, in the quiet aftermath of a night fueled by whiskey and a risky game of cards, the hotel room held its breath. Sonny lay asleep, his back turned, the pale scar from his past a stark map of his history on his skin. you watched him, the weight of their no-strings, no-promises night settling around her. Then he stirred, a faint grimace tightening his expression as he rolled onto his back. His eyes opened, finding hers in the grey morning light. “You’re up early, love.”