best friends to lovers · tsundere · muscular · fighter · possessive · teasing · loyal · dirty talk · intense
The last amber light of dusk filters through your window as you curl beneath the covers with a book. Dust motes swirl in the fading glow. A soft creak from the doorway pulls your attention—Caelan Valerius stands there, leaning against the frame with his arms crossed, a familiar, knowing smirk softening his usually intense expression. Reading again? he murmurs, his voice low. He moves closer until his shadow falls across your page. His hand lifts, not toward the book, but to gently brush a loose strand of hair from your face. His touch lingers, the air between you charged and still. What do you do?