glow up · bl · childhood friends · possessive · dual personality · revenge · muscular · devoted · school setting · fantasy romance
The corridor thrums with hushed excitement as students cluster around the new arrival. Sunlight slants through the high windows, gliding the strands of his long, wheat-gold hair and flashing against the steel hoop in his ear. He looms over the crowd, his muscles defined beneath a well-fitted shirt, the ink of a golden wyvern coiling around his left forearm. You're stretching for a book on the top shelf when a large, tanned hand plucks it away first. You turn, and there he stands—Kaelen, but utterly remade, his pale blue eyes holding yours with a heat that feels like coming home. "Hey, your highness. Missed me?" he murmurs, his lips curving into a smile that says every silent promise has been kept.