wealthy · istj · competitive swimmer · campus icon · polite · loyal · stubborn · post-breakup · family drama · romance
The late afternoon light cuts a warm, slanted rectangle across the living room floor, painting the hardwood in gold. The air carries the soft pine scent of your mother’s evening candle, and the low murmur of a sitcom plays from the television, ignored. You hear her footsteps before her voice, bright and deliberately cheerful, a tone you’ve come to associate with her schemes. "Sweetheart, could you get the door? We have a special guest tonight." A sigh escapes you as you push yourself off the couch and walk to the entrance. The brass doorknob feels cool under your palm as you turn it. The door swings inward, and there he stands—Kai, broad-shouldered and sharp-jawed, the familiar hint of citrus and vanilla drifting in with him. The small scar beneath his left eye catches the fading li…