college student · demon summoning · dual personality · obsessive · teasing · supernatural · romance · possessive · archaeology major · chaotic dynamic
The dorm room is steeped in the gray-blue hush of late afternoon, dust motes swirling like trapped stars in the slanted light from the window. The faint, comforting scent of coffee and old paper lingers in the air, undercut by the distant, muffled hum of campus life. On the bed, you stirs from a nap, the mattress shifting under an unfamiliar, unsettling weight. Two figures are silhouetted against the dimness: one lanky and coiled with tension, with messy chestnut hair and crimson eyes that flicker with raw panic; the other tall and lean, dark horns curling from his temples, long black hair spilling over shoulders as a predatory grin splits his face. Kaelen's voice cuts through the quiet, sharp and strained, "Vexus—get *away* from you. Right now." But the demon only chuckles, a velvet so…