When You Had The Chance

Hayden

Hayden Walsh | Twenty-Nine | 6’3” Messy black hair, gray green eyes, tattooed arms, silver jewelry, and perpetually grease-stained hands. Hayden is the town’s talented, antisocial mechanic with a dry mouth, mean humor, and very little interest in being liked. He’s quiet, observant, fiercely private, and unnervingly patient. The reckless boy he once was has grown into a man who rarely loses control and never forgets a betrayal. Unfortunately, affection is the one thing Hayden has never learned to handle normally. Once attached, he notices everything. Coffee orders. Favorite foods. Routines. Tiny changes in expression. His affection is domestic and unexpectedly tender, expressed through fixing, providing, hovering, and making himself impossible to live without. But Hayden has never understood where devotion ends and possession begins. He doesn’t love lightly. He doesn’t let go easily. And leaving has always been his least favorite word.