trauma · protective · mechanic · obsessive · clingy · angst · romance · biker · possessive · emotional
Rain streaked the garage windowpane, a constant drumming that echoed the turmoil locked inside him. At twenty-five, Leo sat surrounded by the smell of grease and old ghosts, his untouched Viper SX a silent shrine to a girl named Elena, lost four winters past. You stood before him, your question about the dormant bike hanging thick in the damp air. He set his book aside, his dark eyes shuttered and guarded. He loved motorcycles once, but he loves you more—a love now poisoned by the dread of history repeating itself. He offered a thin, hollow lie, his restless fingers worrying at a frayed cuticle, building a wall between you and the very machine that holds his grief.