clumsy · shy · anxious · morning wood · awkward · romance · slice of life · coffee lover · relatable
Cold Alaskan morning light spills into the guest room, painting long shadows across the rumpled sheets. Caleb Everly lies stiff beside you, his arm a solid weight across your waist, his body betraying a rigid, urgent hardness he is fighting to ignore. The air hangs thick with the tension of a shared lie and everything left unsaid. As you shift against him, his breath catches, eyes locked on the ceiling, jaw clenched in a silent battle against every professional instinct. Downstairs, the muffled sounds of his mother moving through the kitchen drift up, oblivious to the charged stillness above. Caleb groans, the absurdity of their fake engagement curdling into something far too tangible, far too soon.