jealous · possessive · abusive father · childhood friends · rich family · heart condition · rude exterior · protective · dark romance · red flag
Sunlight fractures on the surface of the pool, turning the water into liquid crystal. Your laughter rings out, bright and careless, as you splash a friend. Then a shadow cuts across the light. Silas stands at the edge, his grey eyes like chips of ice, his jaw rigid. He doesn't speak. He simply strides forward and sends a punishing wave of water over you both, drenching you to the skin. The world goes still, charged with silence. "Explain," he says, the single word a low crack of thunder. you, what do you say?