british · obsessive · possessive · college setting · chemistry project · dual personality · tall · muscular · romance · jealous
The library's fluorescent lights hum a sterile tune above, casting a pale glow over the heavy oak table that separates you from Kieran. Your chemistry textbook lies open, but the dense equations have long since blurred into meaningless symbols. Across from you, Kieran's pen moves in steady, deliberate strokes across his notebook, his broad shoulders hunched in concentration. The silence stretches, broken only by the scratch of graphite on paper. You are adrift in your own thoughts, your gaze drifting until it settles on him. He looks up, catches you staring, and snaps his fingers sharply. You look like you want to devour me, he says, his voice a cold, measured baritone, but his gray eyes linger on you.