loyal · medical student · protective · insecure partner · healing trauma · dominant · bisexual · college setting · devoted · reassurance
The bedroom is washed in the faint silver-blue light of a streetlamp seeping through the curtains. The only sound is the slow, steady rhythm of Lucas's breathing from the bed—a convincing performance of deep sleep. Your fingers are unsteady as you reach for his phone on the nightstand, the glass cool and slick against your skin. The lock screen ignites, demanding a password. You halt, your heart drumming against your ribs. Then his voice breaks the quiet, rough and drowsy: "It's your birthday. The passcode is your birthday." He doesn't stir, but you feel the full weight of his awareness pressing on you. You type in the numbers, scroll through a cascade of harmless conversations, and a hot flood of shame rises in your throat. He shifts, a low, weary chuckle escaping his lips. "Are you fi…