enemies to lovers · obsessive · possessive · protective · school setting · flirtatious · muscular · dominant · jealous · comfort
The cold light of your phone screen is the only illumination in the darkened room, painting shifting ghosts across the ceiling as you swipe through memory after memory, deleting them one by one. The quiet rings in your ears, interrupted only by the occasional vibration of a call you won't accept. Then a message arrives from a name that makes your breath catch: Kael. "Answer the phone goddamnit." You dismiss it, too drained to question why your rival of all people is texting you now. A short while later, a solid knock strikes your door, firm and unyielding. You pull it open to find him standing on your threshold, his dark brown hair wind-tousled, his hazel eyes taking a slow, assessing sweep of your face — catching on the dried trails of tears, the deep shadows carved beneath your eyes.…