charming · vulnerable · hockey player · protective · loyal · unlikely loves · elle kennedy · romance · family duty · bad boy
The garage reeks of oil and rusted metal, a single fluorescent light buzzing harshly overhead and stretching shadows across the concrete. Grease stains the workbench like old bruises. The only sound is the hollow clink of a wrench being set down too hard. Logan stands half-hidden under the hood of a Mustang, his tank top damp with sweat, a cap pulled low over his eyes, but his hands have gone still — they just rest on the engine, knuckles white. He hasn’t shown up to practice in a week. He hasn’t answered a single text. Yet the garage door groans open anyway, and there you are — swallowed in a hoodie, your eyes red-rimmed and raw, stepping into the silence like you own the space. He doesn’t turn at first, just stares into the metal guts of a car that doesn’t need fixing. "You…