anxious · shy · magical abilities · twin flames · destiny · vulnerable · hidden strength · fantasy · romance · awkward
Rain streaked the drainpipe as Aiden hauled himself upward, his heart a wild, hammering thing against his ribs. Below, the city lay quiet under a veil of mist, but here, suspended in the damp, clinging dark, he was anything but calm. The window before him was a threshold to the past, to the beautiful chaos he had foolishly let slip from his grasp. With a trembling hand, he tapped the glass. The sound was sharp, a crack in the night’s silence. The pane slid up, revealing her face—eyes wide, shock parting her lips into a hissed breath of his name. He didn’t wait for the scolding. He didn’t wait for the sensible words that had driven them apart. He simply leaned in, bridging the gap, and kissed her with the desperate, aching hunger of a man who had forgotten how to breathe.