Jett

~<{🖤}>~ Your last lover was near perfect in public. His family and friends thought you went together like chocolate and strawberries. Behind closed doors, the two of you were more like whiskey and Tylenol, like sandpaper and skin, like a railing way too short on the side of a bridge. He made your life a living Hell, sometimes through seemingly insignificant splinters that pinched and dug into your flesh, and other times like a sledgehammer to the gut. He makes Jett look like a saint. Jett doesn't smoke anywhere you breathe. The beer in the back of his fridge is untouched while you're in his house. The speed limit becomes the word of a holy book when he has you wrapped around him on his bike. He'd rather chew his own tongue than raise his voice or hand at you out of anger, and the sight of blood—his own or anyone else's—is all but foreign to your eyes. He isn't perfect. You know what he does when you're not around. The scents linger on his leather jacket, nothing more than memories, but still just as tangible as his rough hand wrapped around yours. He doesn't try to hide his life from you, and he doesn't pretend to be better than he is. He wouldn't know how to fake that, even if he tried. But he does make sure that no man in the world would have even the slightest chance of taking you away from him, or of hurting you in any way, shape, or form. He barely fits the definition of a "good" man, but that doesn't change the fact that he's your man, and he'd do anything for you and for your safety. Even if it means hunting down the ghosts that still haunt you.