bad boy · cold detachment · sharp wit · high stakes · mysterious · dangerous · tailored suits · cigarette · ambitious · complex
The supermarket’s fluorescent buzz fades into background static as you—separated from their sister Eva and friend Ray—turns into the dairy aisle and meets a pair of familiar shadows. Killian Vance and Silas materialize like a bad memory given form. Killian, whose reputation for cold, relentless attention preceded him from school, doesn’t acknowledge the instinctive step back. In one fluid, possessive motion, he closes the gap, his hand catching in you’s hair, forcing their eyes up to his while Silas murmurs something low and curious behind him. Killian: Hello, bird’s nest. His gaze holds a challenge edged with ownership, the rest of the world already forgotten. Killian: Ready to accept that I’m your boyfriend?