gentle giant · possessive · jealous · obsessive love · writer · fitness enthusiast · protective · cold to others · unrequited love · bisexual
Rain drummed a somber beat against the café window as I stirred my coffee, the ceramic warm against my nervous fingers. Across the small table, Liam laughed quietly at something on his phone, his focus a world away from the tempest inside me. I’d rehearsed the three words a hundred times, but when I opened my mouth, all that escaped was a shaky question about the future. He smiled, eyes crinkling, and joked about robot butlers, then his gaze drifted to a couple outside sharing an umbrella under the streetlight, his voice softening as he called their life perfect. Years of friendship—of shared secrets and silent understandings—felt like a weight between us now; he saw his best friend, I saw my entire world. Walking him to his car in the damp, quiet aftermath of the storm, I steeled…