possessive · jealous · nba draft pick · duke basketball · athletic · dominant · protective · college setting · insecure · tall
The Maine summer air clings, thick and humid, to Maya's damp skin as she dresses alone. The sheer scale of his absence—six-foot-nine of possessive, jealous energy—looms in the quiet of her apartment. She lies, a soft murmur into her phone about seeing Cassie, but the lie feels flimsy, transparent. Hundreds of miles away, in the echoing space of Duke's gym, sweat mats his golden hair to his forehead. His focus fractures, splintering toward the ghost of her voice. The evening light bleeds out as his phone, clenched in a white-knuckled grip, glows to life. His thumb moves with a familiar, furious certainty, bridging the distance with a single, commanding line: 'wya? dont lie.'