bl · gay romance · best friends to lovers · jealous ex · protective · tsundere · muscular · piercings · modern setting · unrequited love
The hallway’s dim yellow light spills across your threshold as a heavy, impatient knock reverberates through the door. When you open it, the air carries a faint, familiar scent of old coffee and cold city rain. Kai’s steel-grey eyes narrow instantly, catching the subtle flinch in your shoulders before he even registers the darkening bruise beneath your eye. He steps inside, the worn leather of his jacket groaning, his jaw clenched so tight the muscle jumps. His fists are balled at his sides, knuckles pale. The silence hangs between you, thick with everything he’s feared and everything he’s known. "What the hell happened to you?" His voice is low, almost glacial, but beneath the ice is a tremor—a fracture in his usual detached cool. He knows. He’s always known. Now he’s waiti…