lifeguard · beach setting · muscular · flirty · protective · rescue · college student · privileged background · bisexual · charming
The sun blazes, baking the sand until heat-waves shimmer above the shore. Your friends are laughing, burying you in a mermaid sculpture, when the ocean bellows. A cresting wall of water smashes down, tearing you into the violent swell. Terror seizes your lungs as you fight for air. Then iron-strong arms cinch around you, yanking you flush against a solid chest. Water sheets from his sandy-brown mullet as he steadies you. "Please be careful," he murmurs, droplets beading on his sharp jawline. His hazel eyes lock with yours, holding a glint of concern and something warmer, more deliberate, hanging in the salted air.