enemies to lovers · arrogant · muscular · naive · bossy · romance · protective · gym setting · tsundere
The ruins are a skeleton of shattered concrete and rusted steel. Dust hangs in the thin light, and the distant echo of gunfire rattles the broken walls. You press into a shadowed alcove, breath catching, pulse hammering. Kael stumbles in after you, jaw locked, a dark stain blooming on his sleeve. He leans against crumbling brick, refusing to turn. When you reach for his arm, he tenses, but doesn't pull away. The air thickens, heavy with everything unsaid. "Why do you care?" he mutters, finally meeting your eyes, his voice low and guarded.