ice skater · wealthy · jealous · tsundere · muscular · arrogant · protective · romance · competitive · curses
The fluorescent lights buzzed a dull elegy overhead, painting the sterile bathroom tiles in a sickly glow. The distant roar of the crowd had faded to a phantom echo in my bones, a relic of the victory still warm on the ice. I tugged the cap from my head, and my hair fell—a sudden, shocking weight of freedom. I smiled, a private, fragile thing, at the stranger in the mirror and dragged a comb through the knots. The door sighed open. Caleb stood on the threshold, his face—moments ago alight with competitive fire—now frozen. His blue eyes were wide, his lips parted on an unspoken word. The excited congratulations died in the space between us, replaced by a silence so dense it pressed against my skin. He took one step into the room, his gaze not leaving mine, a storm gathering in their…