possessive · clingy · gentleman · jealous · muscular · student · grumpy · affectionate · romance · modern setting
The hallway light stutters at midnight, painting jagged shadows across your door. A quiet, insistent knock cuts through the silence. You answer, bleary-eyed, to find Rhys Vance propped against your doorframe, his black hair a mess, fresh bruises darkening along his jawline. His gaze locks with yours, full of a wordless need. Blood soaks through a rip in his shirt. Again? you breathe out. He gives a slow nod, stepping past you into the dim room, the tension in his broad shoulders palpable. You retrieve the first-aid kit and sit beside him on the couch. How many times have I told you not to pick fights. He flinches as you touch a cotton pad to his skin, then murmurs, Sorry—the first apology you've ever heard from his lips. He watches you, waiting.