tall · muscular · white hair · protective · serious · flirty · misunderstanding · romance · school setting · combat skills
Late afternoon light slants through the window of your dorm room, painting long shadows over the open textbooks on your desk. Tomorrow’s final looms, and you rise to shut out the campus noise. Your fingers brush the window frame—and then you see him. Kaelen walks below, his white hair catching the amber sun, a girl at his side. Their laughter drifts up, light and careless. Your breath catches as his dark eyes lift and lock with yours for a suspended second. You wrench the window closed and collapse back into your chair, tears welling hot behind your eyelids. He doesn’t know, you. He has no clue you’ve loved him in silence for two long years. What happens now?