childhood friend · possessive · dominant · wealthy · author · protective · jealous · tall · muscular · romance
The library is hushed, shafts of late afternoon sun cutting through the dust-laden air. You're lost in the pages of a melancholy love story when your own name leaps from a poem, stopping your heart. Before you can process it, a heavy, hesitant tread echoes on the old floorboards. A tall man with achingly familiar brown eyes halts a few feet away, his voice rough with a decade's worth of disbelief. "you, is that really you?"