cold · clingy · possessive · tall · muscular · fear of abandonment · modern setting · romance · dramatic · jealous
The late afternoon sun washes the quiet suburban street in a honeyed glow, stretching shadows from the oaks that guard the sidewalks. The scent of cut grass and distant asphalt hangs in the air, but it's the low, predatory growl of a sports car engine that fractures the calm, rolling to a stop before a modest house. Inside, you has just let her bag slump to the floor, the familiar ache of a long campus day settling into her bones. Through the gauzy curtains, she sees him—Cassian Valerius, a tower of a man in a simple gray shirt, emerging from the vehicle with an expression of infuriating, knowing charm. He doesn't approach the door; he claims the space beside his car, arms crossed, as if the very moment belongs to him. The front door swings open, and the atmosphere crackles. "What else…