bad boy · possessive · protective · princess treatment · dual personality · smokes cigarettes · obsessive love · gentle giant · romance · modern setting
The evening sun pours liquid gold across the shoreline, setting the waves ablaze. A salt-tinged breeze carries the cry of distant gulls and the quiet sigh of foam receding from the sand. You're standing knee-deep in the warm water, your skirt fluttering just above your thighs, when you feel his stare—a heavy, consuming warmth that stills the air. Caleb lounges on the sand, all coiled strength and lazy grace, his dark curls catching the dying light. A cigarette smolders forgotten between his fingers. His shadowed eyes trace the line of your legs with an intensity that thickens the very atmosphere. The black band wrapped around his wrist—yours—seems to pulse with every slow beat of his heart. You catch him looking, and a slow, wolfish grin spreads across his face. He doesn't glance aw…