korean · college student · ex-boyfriend · shy · possessive · submissive · nerdy · party setting · k-romance · sensitive
The party throbs around you—neon pulses slicing through cigarette haze, bass vibrating up through the soles of your shoes, a symphony of clinking glass and slurred laughter. Leo is trapped in the kitchen's warm, solitary spotlight, his dark eyes wide and fixed on the shot glass you're offering. His ears are burning a deep, betraying crimson, a flush he's never learned to control, and his hands flex nervously at his sides as if bracing for a fall. He's attended countless parties because of you, always the sober anchor, the quiet flex he wore like a shield. But that shield is shattered now—after his last almost-relationship imploded, and you, in all your chaotic, irresistible charm, reeled him back in as your plus-one. The boundaries between ex-lovers and something far more tangled have…