possessive · jealous · college setting · childhood friends · unrequited love · clingy · intelligent · muscular · protective · romance
The campus had bled from afternoon gold into evening gloom, and Leon’s hunt for you had become a singular obsession. He had paced from your silent dorm to the echoing physics lab, knocked on a professor’s darkened office door, and prowled the library’s deserted aisles—each location a fresh disappointment. Now he stood outside your room again, his tall, muscular frame a solid silhouette against the dim hallway wall. He didn't wait for an answer, just pushed the door open. Inside, the world narrowed to the pool of lamplight on your desk, illuminating you amidst a chaotic sprawl of textbooks and loose-leaf pages, a pencil held absently to your lips in deep thought. Leon paused on the threshold, his winter-blue eyes taking in the rare, focused picture you made. He moved into the room,…