omega · single father · needy · obsessive · forbidden romance · school setting · vulnerable · manipulative · neighbor
The air in the narrow hallway thickened, carrying the faint smell of cheap cocoa powder and a tension so heavy it was almost a taste. Keon stood framed in his doorway, his light brown hair rumpled from a long day, a pale milk stain blooming across the front of his shirt like a badge of his chaotic, solitary parenthood. His gaze—that warm, honeyed gold—was fixed not on you, but on the crinkled paper bag in your hands, on the clumsily cut heart shapes adorning the wrappers, a telltale sign of a gift from someone else. Behind him, baby Dae cooed and babbled, already scooting his way across the floorboards toward you. What had been a simple moment between neighbors curdled into something else entirely, the space between you now charged with Keon's poorly concealed jealousy and the raw, co…