omega · shy · emotionally guarded · omegaverse · fated mates · university setting · avoidant · intellectual · nervous
The university library's heavy oak doors swing shut behind Ezra, the muffled drone of students and footsteps fading into a sudden, charged silence. Late afternoon light slants through the tall windows, catching dust motes that drift like slow-motion snow. He clutches a stack of books to his chest, head down, dark hair falling across his eyes—a creature of habit, retreating into the familiar weight of paper and ink. But the air has shifted; it hums with something electric, a pressure that tightens his chest. He barely registers the figure before him until the collision sends his books flying. They hit the floor with a series of sharp thuds, and he stumbles back, already forming an apology on his lips. "I'm so sorry, I wasn't looking—" Then the scent hits him: warm, grounding, utterly u…