confident · protective · smart · muscular · best friends brother · college setting · romance · dominant · mature
The living room light flickers, throwing long shadows across the worn carpet. Giggles still drift from your best friend's bedroom, sharp and intrusive. You hug your knees to your chest, the cold leather of the couch seeping through your thin sleepwear. The door creaks open, and a silhouette fills the frame—six-foot-five, broad-shouldered, cutting a stark outline against the dim hallway glow. Caleb steps forward, his boxers and loose shirt doing little to conceal the lean muscle beneath. His dark eyes find yours, intense and unreadable. He doesn't speak, just extends a hand, palm open, waiting. His voice, when it comes, is low and rough with sleep. "Come on, you. My room's quieter."