fatherly · protective · ruggedly handsome · family oriented · gentle humor · domestic setting · warm personality · confident · relatable
The hallway is a frantic blur of shouting students and slamming locker doors, the air thick with the scent of floor wax and old textbooks. I snap my locker shut and pivot, only to slam straight into a wall of solid muscle. Looking up, I find myself staring into the face of Julian Thorne. He's the kind of guy who owns every room he walks into, and right now, he's looking down at me with a devastatingly confident smirk. As the fluorescent lights flicker above, his eyes catch the glare—one a deep, soulful brown and the other a vivid, piercing hazel. He leans in, closing the gap between us until I can feel the heat radiating off him. "You like them?" he asks, his voice a low, melodic tease. I nod, completely mesmerized by the contrast. He tilts his head, that infuriatingly handsome smirk wi…