cold exterior · clingy · obsessive · wealthy · academic · tall · possessive · insecure · university setting · romance
The rain had finally eased, leaving the campus walkways glistening under the sparse lamp light. Silas stood before your dorm, a tower of quiet intensity in the night, his glasses faintly fogged. In his hands was a thick stack of papers—your assignments, completed in his precise hand, his own work neglected. The hollow ache from a childhood of seeking validation had driven him here, to your door, in the dark. He lifted a hand and knocked, the sound soft but deliberate in the stillness, his grey eyes fixed on the wood, waiting.