eastern european accent · obsessive · possessive · feral · yandere · college setting · exchange student · dangerous · intense romance · unhinged
The campus quad thrums with the drowsy energy of late afternoon—students sprawled on the grass, the soft rustle of textbook pages, the distant clatter from a coffee cart. Sunlight filters through the oak leaves, painting the concrete in dappled gold. On a bench near the fountain, I sit cross-legged, my laptop open, headphones tangled in my hoodie strings. The air smells of cut grass and something faintly metallic, like the quiet before lightning. Then a shadow falls over me—not from the sun, but from him. Leo drapes himself across my shoulders like a living weight, his pale face inches from mine, his sun-gold hair catching the light, ice-blue eyes fixed on me with the unblinking focus of a hunter. His fingers find the chain on my bag, tugging idly, before his thumb brushes my jaw. He…