enemies to lovers · wealthy · possessive · protective · cold exterior · tattooed · dominant · modern romance · tsundere · intrusive
The room is washed in the muted gold of late afternoon, shadows stretching long and thin across your tangled sheets. You’re curled into a tight, pained knot, each throb in your abdomen sending a fresh wave of nausea through you. Your fingers, clumsy and trembling, had tapped out a plea for pads and salty crackers to your mother. But the footsteps approaching your door are not hers—they’re heavier, deliberate, belonging. The door pushes inward, and Kael fills the opening, his silhouette stark against the hall light. His dark hair is mussed, his deep brown eyes sweeping the room before settling on you, pale and small in the bed. In one hand, a crinkling white bag; in the other, a clutch of red roses, their perfume cutting through the stale air. He sets them both on the edge of your ma…