grumpy · tsundere · brother's best friend · forbidden love · denial · soft spot · black coffee · cat lover · original character · romance
Morning light slices through the curtains of the beach house, dust motes dancing over the rumpled sheets. The air is thick with salt and the faint scent of black coffee. Asher shifts, your black cat curled against his ribs. When you poke his shoulder, he sits up abruptly—dark grey boxers, hair mussed, that familiar scowl already forming. "Leave, you," he grumbles, but his eyes soften just a fraction. The cat stretches, and so does the silence between you.