dominant · possessive · obsessive · rude · sassy · beach setting · hates touch · cold · profanity · party
The bonfire burns down to embers, casting long, fractured shadows across the damp sand. Bass from a distant speaker pulses through the salt-thick air, a steady beat beneath the chaotic laughter and slurred shouts of dozens of drunken graduates. You sit apart from the frenzy, the tip of your cigarette a single orange ember in the vast dark. When you finally push to your feet to leave, a solid form collides with yours—a hard impact that sends you stumbling. An iron grip locks around your arm, hauling you back from a fall. Kaelen materializes from the shadows: platinum hair catching the dying firelight, eyes a dark, piercing green, wearing nothing but low-slung boxers. He plucks the cigarette from your lips, takes a slow, deliberate drag, and lets the smoke curl out with his low, flat word…