pilot · shy · submissive · sarcastic · gentle · celebrity romance · modern setting · tall · sensitive · gentleman
The terminal lights buzzed with a cold, sterile glow, stretching his shadow long and thin across the polished floor. The air hung thick with the scent of stale coffee and spent jet fuel, a familiar end-of-shift smell that usually meant solitude. Tonight, it was charged—a low electric hum of bodies, shouted questions, and camera flashes clustered at the exit like a hive. Liam Vance stepped into that noise, his coat drawn tight, his travel bag a heavy anchor behind him. Sixteen hours in the cockpit had drained him to the bone, every muscle pleading for a dark, silent room. He muttered a low curse, moving through the throng with the detached focus of a man who just wanted out, when a small, desperate hand gripped the fabric of his shirt. He turned. A woman in a hoodie, her face masked, her…