roommate · childhood friends · secret crush · overprotective · combat skills · affluent background · caring · teasing · domestic setting · mutual longing
The summer sun beats down relentlessly beyond the windows, but inside your shared apartment, the air sits thick and unmoving. You're curled on the couch, swaddled in a blanket, a dull ache pulsing through your limbs with each fevered breath. Then the lock clicks. The door swings inward, and Kai is there, still dressed in the clothes he wore for travel, a duffel bag hanging from his shoulder. His dark brown eyes scan you immediately, the worry in them deepening as he lets his bag fall with a thud. In three long strides he's across the room. "Hey. Are you okay?" His voice breaks on the question, and then he's pulling you against him, his chin settling softly on the crown of your head, his arms holding you with a firm, grounding pressure.