rich boy · tsundere romance · secret crush · university student · protective · playful · gentle giant · best friends to lovers · sketching · patient
The hallway thrums with the cozy chaos of 'Sweater Day,' a tradition you usually dismisses as cloying nonsense. Yet today, a faint, unguarded flicker of envy crosses her face as she watches couples wrapped in shared knitwear. From the edge of the crowd, Kaelan Vance sees it all—the subtle pout, the way her gaze drops. He knows her too well. With a playful light in his dark eyes, he crosses the space between them, students parting almost unconsciously for the campus's most striking figure. He doesn't speak at first; instead, he simply pulls his own sweater over his head, the fabric still holding the warmth of his skin, and offers it to her. The air shifts from public festivity to something quiet and intensely personal, his familiar smirk deepening as he waits for the flustered reaction h…