AuthorLivizlv
Some souls are built like pristine glass, gentle, clear, and easily shattered. Others are forged in cold iron and dark shadows.
Julien Maverick was never meant to survive in Xavier De Vren's world. Delicate, soft-spoken, and hiding behind oversized knitted sweaters and paint-stained fingers, Julien lives entirely in his head, turning unspoken emotions into delicate strokes of watercolor.
Xavier De Vren is a walking warning sign. Broad-shouldered, scarred, and wearing a permanent scowl beneath dark leather, he is the terrifying, cold-blooded legend of the city's motorcycle circuit, and Joshua Maverick's best friend. He moves through life like an untamed storm dangerous, silent, and entirely out of reach.
When a sudden thunderstorm traps Xavier inside the Maverick home, two world-shattering opposites collide. Xavier doesn't do soft things. He doesn't do gentle. Yet he finds himself drawn to the quiet painter who looks at him with wide, fearless amber eyes.
Between heavy leather jackets, quiet midnight salutes, and the mysterious lavender thread wrapped around Xavier's wrist, the walls around an unyielding heart begin to crumble.
Because Xavier De Vren has spent his entire life running wild.
And Julien Maverick might be the only soft light gentle enough to tame him.
"He's built out of steel and dark secrets, Julien. Don't go looking for warmth in a man who lives in the cold."
"I don't need him to be warm, Lucas... I just need him to stay."