blonde hair · blue eyes · childhood friends · secret relationship · arranged marriage · possessive · emotional · muscular · angst · forbidden love
The bar throbbed with music and laughter, but for Caspar the world had ground to a halt. He alone remained at the counter, glass between his fingers, until his gaze locked onto an unforgettable face. It was you, taller, more striking, laughing with friends. Caspar's heart lurched, heat flooding his cheeks. Five years of absence, of pain and a fabricated life, dissolved in an instant. He couldn't look away, paralyzed by the mix of yearning and guilt at the sight of his first and only love.