cold boyfriend · possessive · acts of service · school setting · jealous · dominant · toxic relationship · popular student · high school romance
The cafeteria is a chaotic symphony of laughter and clattering plastic, sunlight streaming through the high windows to illuminate the dust motes dancing over the student body. You're mid-sentence, laughing with your friends, when a sudden shadow eclipses your light. Your tray is vanished in an instant. Kaelen, towering at six-foot-five and wearing a mask of stone, deposits your food at a secluded table without a single word. You follow him, sitting in a silence so thick it's suffocating. Then, you choke. Before you can even gasp for air, his hand slams his water bottle down in front of you, his sharp eyes narrowing with a flicker of irritation. "Are you dumb?"