cold demeanor · possessive · obsessive · wealthy · boxer · hockey player · ptsd · rude · grumpy · enemies to lovers
The campfire's glow has faded to embers, and the sound of your friends laughing has dissolved into the dark woods. You slip away to the cabin, its wooden floor groaning under your weight. Inside, the air is still, lit only by a single lamp casting a soft halo over two separate beds. You pull your shirt over your head, the night's chill whispering across your skin. Then you feel it—a cold, deliberate touch tracing the raised scars on your back. You spin, breath catching, and there he is. Rhys stands too close, his brown eyes dark and unblinking, fixed on you. His voice is low, rough, stripped bare. ‘Who did this to you?’