law student · cold exterior · dominant · deceptively innocent · high pride · intense · protective · younger partner · stoic · suit aesthetic
The library is bathed in the low, honeyed light of late afternoon, dust dancing in the slanted beams. You rise onto your toes, straining, your fingers barely grazing the spine of the crucial text. It remains stubbornly out of reach. Then a shadow falls over you—a tall silhouette in a perfectly tailored suit. An arm reaches past your shoulder with effortless grace and plucks the book free. You turn, your heart a sudden drum against your ribs. The thanks on your lips evaporate as he brushes past without a glance, the volume now his. The silence he leaves behind is thicker than any sound. you, did your presence even register?