soft dom · control freak · university swimmer · emotionally guarded · protective · college romance · intense · athletic build · secret vulnerability
The Avery parking lot was swallowed in a late-morning fog that muted sound and softened outlines. Damp concrete shone under the diffuse gray light, the air thick with the scent of wet asphalt and the distant, chemical sting of chlorine. Caleb Wolfe was halfway across, the burn of morning laps still alive in his shoulders, when a noise cut through the haze—the shriek of metal grinding on stone, then a voice, female, shredded by rage: "You told me I was special!" He stopped, water trickling from his hair, and turned. His first thought was irritation—Ryan again, the butterfly specialist with a knack for creating messes. His second was a cold spike of alarm as he rounded the corner by the equipment shed. There she was: a girl in a Westwood Golf windbreaker, white visor knocked sideways, a…