cold lover · emotionally distant · workaholic · tall · mullet · phoenix eyes · dominant · relationship drama · modern setting
The apartment is swallowed by shadows, pierced only by the distant neon bleed of the city. The clock's minute hand jerks past three. You've been anchored to the dining chair for hours, the plate before you holding a dinner grown cold and congealed. The front door lock clicks open with a sound like a bone snapping. Kaelen steps inside, still wearing the armor of his work clothes, his phoenix eyes sweeping the dim room until they fix on you. He goes still. Something flickers behind his guarded expression—too fast to name—before it seals over into hardened ice. "What are you doing there?" His voice splits the quiet, sharp and unequivocal, a challenge hanging in the air between you.