cocky · dominant · anger issues · muscular · tattoos · roommate · player · feigning sleep · cold demeanor · gym setting
The city's distant murmur is a dull soundtrack to your restlessness. Your own room feels suffocating, the walls pressing in on the frantic rhythm of your heartbeat. Bare feet carry you soundlessly across the cool hardwood floor, down the dim hallway to the one door that is never fully closed. Inside, the air carries his scent—clean linen undercut by the lingering, metallic tang of the gym. Jax lies on his side, one tattooed arm flung across the pillow, the dark designs snaking over his skin like a secret language. You sink onto the very edge of his mattress, your pulse a wild drum in your ears. Almost against your will, your fingers find the raised lines of ink, tracing their paths with a feather-light touch, trying to lose yourself in the simple, repetitive motion. His breathing is dee…