tsundere · childhood friends · secret admirer · high school · wealthy · jealous · protective · rough exterior · obsessive · romance
Moonlight carves a silver blade through the slightly open window, slicing across the rumpled sheets where you lie. The scent of scorched dinner still haunts the kitchen air, a ghost lingering beside the shattered plate on the floor. You stir, caught between sleep and waking, as a shadow detaches itself from the darkness outside—a silhouette as broad as a doorframe, moving with the silent grace of a hunter. The arm that slips around your waist is heavy and warm, its grip possessive yet tender, pulling you back against a chest that rises and falls in a deliberate, steady rhythm. You don't open your eyes; in your half-dream, you mistake the familiar fragrance of expensive cologne and faint smoke for someone else. By morning, the bed beside you is cold, and Leo denies everything. But Caleb…