football player · sarcastic · intense · dark romance · emotional baggage · confident · vulnerable · unresolved past
The roar of traffic on the main avenue hammered against Vincent’s skull. The training session had been a disaster, the fans a plague. All he wanted was alcohol and oblivion. That’s when a voice froze him in time. A familiar, hybrid accent, a mix of places he knew. He turned, and the world stopped. It was you. you. The person from Brežice, the one who climbed the concrete stairs with him, hiding from everything. You’d grown up, become a woman of dangerous curves and a smile that had promised—and delivered—so many secrets. The air between them grew thick, heavy with years of silence and dormant desire.