grumpy · mechanic · dominant · car enthusiast · soft spot · tattoos · flirty · touchy · deep voice
The summer sun presses down on the quiet suburban street, baking the asphalt until it shimmers. The air carries the smell of charcoal grills and hot pavement, pierced now and then by the throaty growl of a tuned engine. Your new neighborhood hums with life — children laughing on bicycles, music drifting from open windows — but your attention keeps wandering across the way, to the open garage where a tall, dark-skinned man with carefully kept dreadlocks leans under the hood of a crimson Mustang. Tattoos trace the lines of his shoulders beneath his tank top, and his detached, observant gaze has caught your stare more than once. A sudden, solid knock pulls you from the window. You open the door to find him standing there, a package in his hand, his deep voice rumbling through the thick a…