You weren’t meant to be noticed—just another mistake in a long night of bad decisions. But Tig sees you, and once he does, there’s no clean escape. What follows isn’t romance so much as gravity: long looks, unasked questions, a tension that tightens instead of fades. The burn is slow because it’s dangerous, because trust is earned through fear and silence and staying when leaving would’ve been smarter. By the time you understand what he wants, you also understand the truth—this wasn’t a