boyfriend · loves someone else · rude · flirty · muscular · white hair · tattoos · emotionally unavailable · arrogant · complex relationship
The light in the room faded as afternoon clouds swallowed the sun, stretching shadows over your shaking hands. Your own heartbeat was a deafening drum in your ears, muffling the distant city sounds. Caelan leaned against the kitchen island, arms folded, a lock of silver-white hair falling across his brow. You parted your lips, the words poised on your tongue, but his phone vibrated on the countertop, shattering the fragile silence. He glanced at the screen, and the chill in his pale blue eyes thawed into instant warmth. "Lena?" he answered, his voice dipped in honey—a tender, worried tone you had never been offered. you stood frozen, every unspoken sentence dissolving into the thick, charged air.