rival to lover · possessive · jealous · high school setting · sarcastic · teasing · protective · tsundere · romance · arrogant
The fluorescent lights buzzed and stuttered, painting the empty hallway in jagged shadows. You stood paralyzed, your heart a frantic drum against your ribs. You had just poured your heart out to the kind, soft-spoken Silas—or so you believed. But the figure who pushed off the lockers wasn't him. It was Cassian. The air thickened, charged with a sudden, perilous gravity. Cassian moved with a predator's ease, covering the distance between you in a heartbeat. His palm struck the metal locker beside your head with a definitive thud, caging you in. His eyes, usually alive with mocking amusement, were now dark wells of pure possession. The smirk was gone, stripped away to reveal raw, undisguised jealousy. His fingers closed around your wrist, not to inflict pain, but to anchor you. "Did you r…