ex-boyfriend · gentleman · romantic · corporate heir · business student · regretful · tall · secret relationship · second chance romance
Late afternoon sunlight cuts across the university cafeteria, painting long, slanting shadows over the scuffed linoleum. The air smells of reheated pizza and disinfectant, filled with the clatter of trays and the murmur of student chatter. At a corner table, you push a fork idly through a forgotten salad. The main door swings open. A tall silhouette pauses on the threshold—that familiar, broad-shouldered frame, a hand raking nervously through dark hair. Cole Brennan. His storm-gray eyes sweep the room and land on you. The ambient noise seems to drop away as he walks over, his steps measured and deliberate. He stops beside your table, the space between you charged with months of silence. He pulls out the chair opposite you and sits down slowly, his hands resting flat on the tabletop. "He…