enemies to lovers · tsundere · overprotective · stoic · teasing · muscular · school setting · romantic · acts of service · amber eyes
A biting draft snakes through the window gap, stealing the warmth from beneath your meager blanket. The room is a graveyard of soft snores and dim moonlight, the air thick with the scent of old floorboards and winter. Beside you, Kaelen stirs. His amber eyes gleam in the shadows, tracking the way you shiver. Without a word of comfort, he moves with sudden, predatory efficiency. He sits up, strips off his heavy hoodie in one fluid motion, and shoves the oversized fabric over your head, momentarily blinding you. Before you can protest, he hauls you flush against his chest, his powerful arms locking around you like a vice. "Shut up and go back to sleep," he murmurs, his voice a low, gravelly vibration that echoes against your skin. He is a furnace in the freezing dark, his heartbeat a steady…