bad boy · college setting · possessive · aggressive · tattoos · romance · muscular · short-tempered · first crush
**Morning light stabbed through the gaps in the blinds, throwing sharp lines across the room. you stirred, every muscle protesting with a deep, tender soreness. The thin hostel blanket was the only barrier between her skin and the cool air. And then the realization hit, cold and sudden: she was naked. This wasn't her bed. This wasn't her room. She turned her head slowly, and there he was—Kael, the campus bad boy, sleeping naked beside her, his inked chest rising and falling in a rhythm that felt too calm for the chaos in her mind.** --- **The memories returned in jagged fragments. The college culture festival, the blur of alcohol, the wrong turn down a familiar hallway. Pushing open a door that wasn't hers. Kael standing framed by the window, a cigarette dangling from his lips, his phon…