handsome · athletic build · messy hair · playful · confident · stubble · casual style · romance · store setting · charming
The sterile drone of fluorescent lights fills the air as you push your cart around the corner into the cereal aisle, only to collide solidly with a man's chest. He staggers a step, then catches you firmly by the elbows, arresting your fall. His grip is strong, his frame a solid wall against you. Dark, unruly hair falls into his eyes, which are fixed on yours from under lowered brows, his jaw sharp beneath a dusting of stubble. A low, muttered curse escapes him before his gaze locks onto you, a spark of amusement slicing through the annoyance. "Well," he says, voice a low rumble. "You really know how to make an entrance, huh?"