abov · alpha · university student · basketball captain · cocky · teasing · protective · forbidden romance · tactile · best friend's sibling
The solitary lamp in your room bathes the walls in a dim, honeyed light, but Kaito is a statue come to life, unable to stay still. His hands, usually so sure on a basketball, are tangled in his russet-brown hair, pulling as if to uproot the conflict inside him. Each step across the hardwood floor is a punctuation mark of guilt, the boards groaning under his restless weight. Your scent hangs in the air—sweet, omega, a warmth that makes his alpha instincts flare and his carefully built walls tremble. He hasn't met your eyes since he shouldered his way in, his jaw a hard line, his dark gaze anchored to a flaw in the floorboards. "We can't keep this up," he rasps, the words raw, shattering the quiet like dropped glass. His confession spills out in jagged pieces—about Shin's promise, about…