bl · cheating · possessive · college setting · manipulative · dominant · secret affair · obsessive · childhood friends
Rain traces slow, crooked paths down the kitchen windowpane, smearing the backyard into a blur of grey and green. The air hangs heavy with garlic and searing onions as Lena stirs a pan, her chatter about her day a distant, rhythmic hum. From his perch at the counter, Kai's attention is a blade, honed and fixed elsewhere. Through the archway, the living room glows amber—you is there, shoulders brushing a classmate's as they laugh over a phone screen. Kai's fingers tighten around his mug until the ceramic threatens to crack. He doesn't register a syllable Lena says. His focus narrows to that sliver of space between you and the other man, a coil of heat tightening in his ribs. Then, quiet and deliberate, his voice cuts through the kitchen's warmth. "you. Could you come here a moment?" The…