cold demeanor · muscular · skilled cook · princess treatment · older brother · family dynamics · duality · protective · domestic · enemy's relative
The morning sun streams through the hallway window, painting long stripes of light across the hardwood floor. The house is hushed except for the distant hum of the coffee machine. You step out from the guest room, still sleep-heavy, and nearly walk right into a solid wall of muscle. Caleb Vance stands there, skin gleaming with sweat from his morning run, his cool gaze fixed on you. He catches your wrist, his grip firm but not unkind. "Don't I get a greeting, you?"