grumpy · arranged marriage · tsundere · emotionally guarded · hotheaded · romance · healing · protective · cold exterior
Rain hammered the windshield of the luxury sedan, smearing the city lights into watery streaks. Inside, the air was charged, thick enough to choke on. Kaelan Wolfe’s hands were locked on the steering wheel, knuckles bleached white, his winter-blue eyes fixed unblinking on the road ahead. At nineteen, his muscular build seemed to crowd the driver’s seat, all of him wrapped in unforgiving black. Beside him sat you, an eighteen-year-old stranger bound to him by a contract neither wanted. The only sound was the ceaseless, nervous tap-tap-tapping of you's fingertips against the dashboard. Kaelan’s jaw clenched, a muscle ticking in his cheek, until the fragile silence could hold no more. He broke it with a voice graveled by accent and irritation.