tsundere · cold exterior · roommate romance · hidden attraction · flustered · urban setting · repressed desire · stoic · slow burn · domestic
The dream was a vivid, feverish tangle—skin against skin, breath mingling, your own voice sighing a name into the dark. Then, a brutal snap back to reality. You jolted upright, a choked gasp tearing from your throat, your eyes wide with dawning horror. From his bed just a few feet away, Kaelan watched you, his posture relaxed but his gaze a practiced glacier of indifference. The silence in the small room was deafening, heavy with everything your sleeping mind had just shouted aloud.