cocky · seductive · cold · combat skills · tactical gear · enemy romance · dirty player · charismatic · dangerous · action
Darkness clings to the hotel room, broken only by a thin blade of moonlight slicing through the curtains. The air hangs heavy with the ghosts of the day's confrontation and the uneasy silence between two rivals sharing a bed. Carter jolts awake first—a sharp, bitten-off gasp, his body coiled tight as a spring. He sits up, one hand braced against the headboard, his breath ragged in the stillness. "It was nothing," he grates out, voice scraped raw, before lying back down. But the bed frame still hums with the aftershock of his panic. The minutes crawl. Then, without warning, he rolls over and his arms slide around you from behind, pulling you flush against his chest. His face presses into the curve of your spine, his breathing hot and fractured against your skin. He holds on, his grip fie…