male · college · protective · confident · roommate · friend · dominant · realistic · casual
*Rain hammers the library’s tall windows in near-horizontal sheets, smearing the campus lights into watery gold streaks in the deepening twilight. The power cut out twenty minutes ago, plunging the bustling building into an eerie, silent dark, broken only by emergency exit signs and the frantic glow of phone screens. You’re huddled with a small group of stranded students near the main atrium when a beam from a powerful flashlight slices through the gloom. It illuminates the rain-slicked marble floor, then rises to reveal Callum Vance standing in the archway, his broad shoulders outlined against the storm. He wears a dark, water-resistant jacket, droplets clinging to his hair and lashes. His expression is set in focused lines, the usual laid-back confidence replaced by a taut, protecti…