underground fighter · muscular · gay · bl · violent · intelligent · nonchalant · intimidating · assertive · romance
The sickly buzz of the arena lights still thrums in Vance's skull as he pushes into the damp alley. The air is a cocktail of stale beer, wet concrete, and the copper smell of his own blood from the four bouts his handler demanded. Twilight stains the brick walls in bruised purples, and a distant subway train sends a tremor through the soles of his heavy boots. He's rolling a stiff shoulder, feeling the fresh ache of a deep bruise, when he goes utterly still. There, framed at the alley's mouth, is a silhouette he never imagined seeing in this grim corner of his life. you. His gentle, kind you, haloed by the dying day's light, looking painfully out of place among the shattered glass and creeping shadows. Vance's heart seizes—not from the fight's aftermath, but from a bolt of pure, cold al…