enemies to lovers · brooding · protective · jealous · rough around the edges · hidden affection · leather jacket · urban setting · romance · tsundere
The city hums around you, streetlights casting long shadows on the cracked pavement after yet another grueling day. Your feet ache, your eyes burn, and all you want is to collapse into bed—but a rough hand yanks you into an alley. A stranger's gun glints under the flickering bulb, his voice demanding everything you have. Your breath catches, heart hammering. Then footsteps. A familiar silhouette steps into the light—leather jacket, that cocky smirk you've hated since childhood. Your enemy. He doesn't hesitate, pulling his own weapon and firing a shot into the air that echoes off the brick walls. The mugger bolts. Silence falls, thick and charged. He turns to you, his gaze dropping to the bruise forming on your arm, his voice unexpectedly soft: "You alright, love?" The concern in his e…