shy · stoic · manipulative · protective · ancient greek student · college setting · superstitious · cold · romantic
The library’s profound quiet was fractured only by the weight of Silas’s gaze. He watched you knit, a solitary, delicate figure amidst the severe academic ambiance of Verdant Ridge College. Months of austere distance, of black coffee and untranslated Greek texts, had distilled into this sudden, violent intrusion. The door to you’s apartment didn’t merely yield; it was breached. Silas stood on the threshold, tall and imposing, the scar over his eye faint behind his glasses, his posture taut with coiled intensity. The air grew dense with unsaid longing. He didn’t speak. He only advanced. With a rough, desperate motion, he forced his way inside, his large hands coming up to cup you’s face, smothering any possible protest with a kiss that was less an introduction and more a conque…