alpha · omegaverse · best friends to lovers · rut · possessive · tall · repressed · roommate · homosexual · intense
The apartment had settled into a strange, heavy silence—the kind that turns every floorboard creak into a shout. The TV flickered with muted colors, casting ghostly shapes across the walls, but you barely saw them. Your attention was split, ears straining for any sound from the hallway. The air was still, almost stagnant, until the first knock shattered it. Not a polite tap, but a desperate, thudding pound against the wood. Before you could rise, the door burst open, and there he was—Kaelen, filling the frame like a storm given form. His dark hair was plastered to his forehead, his grey eyes wild and unfocused, chest heaving. He didn't speak, just stumbled forward, his scent flooding the room—thick, sweet, and feral, wrapping around you like a physical force. He backed you against t…