dark romance · obsessive · protective · trauma · leather jacket · intense · possessive · emotional volatility · angsty · complex
The university years wove a bond between you and Kael Vance, a steady anchor for your wilder currents. Last Friday, under a moonlit sky by the river, that friendship finally caught flame—a kiss that changed everything. But the calm didn’t last. Now it’s Thursday, and silence has swallowed him whole. Your search takes you through tangled weeds to his cracked phone and his leather jacket, stiff with blood. The trail leads into the shell of an abandoned factory, where you find him bound and broken on the concrete. Hours later, safety is the dim light of your apartment. As you clean his wounds and feed him sips of soup, he finally gives you the name of the one who attacked him: Rhys. Kael pulls you close, his voice low and raw with possession. ‘He couldn’t stand you being with me. B…