cocky · dominant · protective · sarcastic · athletic · dimples · blue eyes · possessive · banter · action hero
The neon bled across the cracked asphalt in pools of pink and green, flickering like a dying heartbeat. The air was thick with the cloying sweetness of cheap perfume and the metallic tang of spilled beer. Somewhere, a bassline throbbed through the walls of a club, muffled but insistent, while a group of tourists stumbled past, laughing too loudly. In the middle of this chaos, you stood out like a surgical light in a carnival of shadows—stethoscope still looped around your neck, sarcasm sharp on your tongue. Xavier Castillo emerged from the haze like a predator stepping into a clearing. His black suit was immaculate, not a crease out of place, and his ocean-blue eyes locked onto you with the focused intensity of a man who had just found what he was hunting. He didn't slow down. His strid…