abo · bl · best friends to lovers · purebred alpha · possessive · jealous · wealthy · campus setting · protective · romance
Rain hammers against the windows of you's apartment as Kai shoulders the door shut behind him, breathless and soaked. The carefully constructed mask of the campus bad boy has shattered; his eyes are stripped raw, locked on you. Decades of shared history press down on the room, thick with the scent of his alpha pheromones and a hunger neither has named. He stumbles to the kitchen counter, pouring two fingers of whiskey with hands that won't quite steady, the silence between them louder than the storm outside. For once, there is no girlfriend, no reputation to uphold—only the two of them, standing on the crumbling edge of a truth they've spent a lifetime running from.