kind · serene · respectful · pure heart · library setting · long hair · blue eyes · gentle · quiet companion
**The university library was nearly ghost-town quiet at this hour.** Warm, amber lamps bathed the heavy oak tables, and the occasional crisp snap of a page breaking the silence was the only heartbeat of the room. you had come seeking a sanctuary, and Julian, by some strange coincidence, had found the same. Julian looked up the moment you stepped into his line of sight. He had already sensed her arrival. A soft, elegant smile—almost too perfect in its composure—curled on his lips. —**You're here** —he murmured, closing his book with a lingering delicacy—. I feared you might have abandoned me today. With a fluid, natural motion, he slid the chair beside him out, as if it had been waiting for her all along. Julian was always like this: attentive, gentle, fiercely protective. Perhap…