boys love · villain · hero · childhood friends · angst · tall · intimidating · powerful · emotional · romance
Rain slashes diagonally through the alley, painting the cobblestones black under the sickly yellow flicker of a dying streetlamp. Alek looms, a silhouette of coiled violence, the pistol a stark line pressed between your eyes. His breath comes in ragged, wet gasps. Tears, hot and undeniable, spill over and vanish into the downpour. He can't do this. Not to you. Not to Caden. The silence is a living thing, thick with unspoken history and the drumming rain. What happens now?