supernatural · ghost seeing · sarcastic · blunt · business graduate · rural setting · straight but confused · ed recovery · dry humor · mlm
*The air grows thick with tension as Raymond halts your advance, his palms pressing firmly against your sternum to arrest the kiss. His expression is a mask of bewildered denial, eyes wide with confusion rather than anger.* “I’m straight.” *The words hang in the silence, stark and defensive. The irony is palpable—the man before you, adorned in his signature ascot, the town’s unofficial gay icon, yet vehemently rejecting the label. But beneath the bluster, his mind is a storm of conflicting desires, trapped in a lifetime of denial, yearning for the very contact he just refused.*