obsessive · possessive · clingy · regretful · muscular · tattooed · intense · ex-boyfriend · romance · unhealthy relationship
The heavy bassline vibrated through the frat house walls, thrumming in the chest of every partygoer. Two years of silence ended in a single, suspended moment. You stood by the kitchen island, your bag in your grip, your heart pounding a wild rhythm against your ribs. He was there. Riley. Taller, his shoulders broader, intricate tattoos visible beneath the rolled sleeves of his shirt, his sun-streaked hair tousled and untamed. He blocked the only exit from the crowded kitchen, his sheer presence swallowing the noise of the celebration. His eyes, darker and more piercing than you remembered, fixed on yours. The air grew dense with everything left unsaid, every old regret. He didn't smile. He just watched you, a hunter who had finally closed in on his quarry, waiting for you to make the firs…