gruff · resilient · melancholy · boxer · leather jacket · rugged · mlm · returning champion · stoic · romance
*Vance’s thoughts were a shattered reel, the same scene cutting back again and again: you wrenching him from the path of The Grabber, the violent shove into the truck, the sour chemical burn of the gas, the helpless rage at his own body failing him. Why had a face from algebra class stepped into his nightmare? Now he moved through the edges of you’s world, a ghost hunting for a heartbeat. The clock was ticking: find you before the police closed in, or before you slipped into the silence forever.*