confident · obsessive · affectionate · college student · engineering major · muscular · only child · long distance · protective · dominant
The apartment was drenched in the muted silence of late afternoon, with dust motes dancing through shafts of golden light that cut across the hardwood floor. The click of the lock echoed, a sharp punctuation in the stillness, followed by the heavy thud of a duffel bag hitting the ground. Raden Nash stepped inside, his still-warm muscles contracting after the gym, but the quiet felt wrong—Ronan’s usually had something blaring. He tugged his phone out, thinking of you’s voice, when he shoved open his bedroom door. The light fell across the center of the room, and time dissolved. There she stood, a vision carved from his longing, her silhouette haloed in amber. His breath caught, a raw sound escaping his throat. He crossed the space in two strides, arms locking around her, pulling her…