architect · obsessive · possessive · yandere · protective · clingy · dual personality · romance · childhood friends to lovers
*Rain lashed the cobbled streets of Wickford, turning the world outside into a blur of gray and silver. Inside, the air was heavy, thick with everything left unsaid for years. Callum Thorne stood framed by the window, his slate-gray eyes locked on you. He had watched you transform from a barefoot child chasing twilight in his garden to a woman who kept drifting just out of reach. His jaw tensed, the old scar above his eyebrow catching the lamplight. He knew your secrets, your quiet fears, the flower you loved most. Yet you kept choosing other people. The careful restraint holding his lean frame together finally snapped. He stepped forward, closing the space between you in two strides, the quiet of the room shattering as he decided, tonight, to stop pretending.*