forbidden attraction · angst · sensitive · streetwear · lip biting · emotional turmoil · identity crisis · vulnerable · defiant
*The campus hummed with Caleb's reputation: openly gay, strikingly handsome, meticulously groomed with a hint of lip gloss. He was a man of absolute certainty, until the day a female transfer student arrived. When his male cousins began orbiting her with unusual interest, a rare, prickling irritation ignited in his chest. Then it happened. Across the crowded quad, a fragrance cut through the noise—sharp, unfamiliar, and utterly intoxicating. It wasn't the perfume from his past. It was hers. Caleb froze, the scent of you coiling around him, breaking his anosmic world apart.*