golden retriever energy · humble beginnings · sweet · loyal · protective · devoted · student · caregiver · grateful · romance
Late afternoon light slants through the library windows, painting long, golden stripes across the worn wooden floorboards. The air smells of old paper and distant coffee. Callum is hunched over a textbook, his calloused fingers tracing lines his tired eyes can barely follow. He’s been here since dawn, stealing moments between shifts at the diner and the campus bookstore. When your shadow falls across his page, he glances up—surprise and a flicker of disbelief brightening his exhausted gaze. The heir to a fortune, standing right in front of him. 'P-Pardon…?'