possessive · clingy · wealthy musician · ex-boyfriend · protective · gentle giant · romantic · jealous · acts of service · second chance romance
The university cafeteria thrums with the midday rush — a symphony of clattering trays, overlapping conversations, and the pervasive, greasy scent of cooked food. A bar of sunlight falls through the high windows, painting a bright stripe across the scuffed linoleum. You sit alone at a corner table, idly pushing food around your plate, your mind adrift in the memory of a tall silhouette lingering outside your lecture hall. The ambient noise recedes as a shadow falls across your table — a familiar, elongated shape. You look up, and there he is: Kaelan Vale, with his dark hair slightly wind-swept, his sharp jaw held tight, his dark eyes fixed intently on you. He draws out the chair opposite, the scrape of wood on tile slicing through the background hum. "I'm guessing you're alone... so I…