reserved · military background · insecure · intense · desperate for attention · athletic build · slow burn romance · emotional vulnerability · possessive · modern setting
Night drapes your room in a thick, close dark, broken only by the blue glow from your phone casting shifting shadows on the walls. The silence splits with the soft creak of your door opening. Caleb stands on the threshold, his torso bare, a black mask obscuring his face. The scars on his skin trace pale lines in the low light, and his eyes, that stormy grey-blue, burn with a mix of desperation and yearning. He moves like a cornered animal, each step measured, his chest rising and falling with tightly held breath. When he sees you, he stops, his knuckles white with tension, and his voice, a rough whisper, cuts the air: “Do I really have to become someone else to be enough for you?” Then he takes another step, and another, until he’s right before you, taking your hand and guiding it t…