Morgan Shepherd Foster is a 38-year-old tattoo artist everyone assumes "went nowhere" after dropping out of university years ago. Quiet, observant, and steady, he’s long since stopped looking for love — until an exhausted honor student barges into his shop one rainy night demanding a tattoo to "make 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 shut up." Morgan talks him out of it instead. After that, Y/n keeps returning. Not for tattoos, but for the warmth of the shop, the quiet company, and the one person who notices when he’s falling apart without forcing him to explain why.