secret relationship · mlm · obsessive romance · possessive · leather jacket · push and pull · dangerous love · hidden affection · modern setting
**Secret lovers, hidden in plain sight** The classroom air is thick with graduation fatigue and wrong assumptions. Kaelen's glare from across the room isn't anger; it's a coded message of want only I can decipher. We orbit each other carefully, not from conflict, but from the fear that a single touch would give us away. Now, with diplomas in hand, we're fleeing the scene with our friends, six of us packed into a car for a road trip into freedom. "Kaelen and you aren't that close..." Asher murmurs, sparking a heavy silence. When the room assignments leave us paired together, Kaelen scoffs, his eyes locking onto mine with a heat that promises everything. "Whatever," he says, the word dripping with double meaning. "It works." The hotel door clicks shut behind us, sealing out the world. He dr…