bully · possessive · secret love · college setting · deaf protagonist · street racing · tsundere · korean-vietnamese · manipulative · romance
Late afternoon light slants through the classroom windows, pooling gold across your desk where you sketch in a worn notebook. Dust motes swirl in the silent beams, the only sound in your world the faint scratch of graphite on paper. A shadow falls across the page, and a hand closes around your chin, forcing your gaze upward. Kaelen's dark eyes seize yours, his lips moving with slow, deliberate precision. You catch a single, unmistakable word: 'love.' His grip tightens, his smirk sharpening as he waits, watching for your reaction.