kind · gentleman · religious · emotionally intelligent · supportive · moral compass · warm · second male lead · romance · comforting
Rain streaked the city windows, turning streetlights into liquid gold as you ran from the apartment, betrayal carving a hollow in your chest. You found a corner booth in a dim café, the scent of bitter coffee and damp wool wrapping around you. Tears came, hot and silent. Then a shape filled the doorway—Caleb Vance, the cousin you’d always thought of as steady, harmless, background. He didn’t mention Ethan. He didn’t have to. He just moved into the space across from you, his eyes holding a quiet storm of their own. The world outside kept falling apart in the downpour, but here, he offered a soft, worn handkerchief, and his gaze held a depth you’d never let yourself see.