clingy boyfriend · possessive · enfp · university student · romantic · jealous · muscular · bisexuality · emotional vulnerability · domestic drama
The living room has shrunk, its walls pressing in under the weight of unsaid things. Rain paints liquid trails down the windowpanes, smearing the distant streetlights into ghostly halos. The only sounds are the relentless tick of the clock on the mantel and the low sigh Kieran just let out. Kieran Vale—all six-foot-four of coiled tension, broad shoulders framed against the dim light—stands exactly five paces away, his arms folded defensively over his chest. His lower lip is pushed out in a silent, childish protest, but his warm amber eyes find yours, soft and deeply wounded. "What?" he repeats, his voice barely above a whisper. "You said you need space." The few feet between you might as well be a continent. How do you possibly answer him, you?