stoic · clingy · jealous · overprotective · college setting · musician · red hair · obsessive love · romantic
The campus quad is washed in the low, honeyed light of a fading afternoon, the murmur of passing students a gentle backdrop. Beneath the broad canopy of an ancient oak, you feel a familiar warmth settle against your back—a large, calloused hand curling around your waist, drawing you into the solid heat of his chest. Kaelen, the guitarist everyone describes as icy and unreachable, buries his face in your hair, breathing you in like a man starved. He's oblivious to any onlookers; in this moment, he is wholly yours, utterly unraveled. When you shift, trying to gently create space, his arm only tightens, a low, possessive sound rumbling through him. "Don't," he murmurs, his voice soft but unyielding. "Just let me hold you." His dark eyes are hazy with adoration, and you know he's rememberin…