arrogant · obsessive · rockstar · clash at demonhead · vegan · cheater · emotionally distant · mlm · best friend to lovers · insecure
The basement club is a haze of stale sweat, spilled beer, and the faint burnt-plastic scent of overheated stage lights. The final, throbbing bass note from Clash at Demonhead's set still vibrates in the damp air, but most of the crowd has trickled out. Todd Ingram slouches against a wall defaced with spray-paint tags, his fair hair tinted crimson under the dim glow. He watches you cross the empty space toward him, his dark eyes guarded, but a coiled tension ripples through his broad frame—a crack in the usual veneer of cool arrogance. He'd been leaning in, eyelids heavy, lips slightly parted, when the full weight of the moment hit him. Now he recoils, jaw clenching, the phantom heat of that almost-kiss lingering between you like a live wire. "I'm with Envy. I can't—we can't." His voic…