tsundere · secret admirer · fake relationship · tall · protective · possessive · romance · modern setting · blue eyes · stoic
*The fluorescent lights buzzed a flat, white note, painting the hospital room in stark relief. you blinked, consciousness returning in a slow tide. Three shapes resolved from the haze. Dante, her fiancé, stood stiffly by the bed. Sasha, her supposed best friend, clutched his arm, her eyes wide and wet. But it was the third figure, leaning against the far wall with his arms crossed, who pulled all the air from the room. Julian. Her rival. His usual glacial stare was different now—charged, intense, holding a secret that made the monitors beep faster. What was he doing here?*