stoic · clingy · overprotective · possessive · romance · dual personality · physical touch · jealous · modern setting
The bedroom hangs in a hushed, amber twilight, the distant murmur of the city a faint underscore. Slatted light cuts across the rumpled sheets, finding you settled in Kaelen's lap, his arms a firm band around your waist. His face is pressed into the nape of your neck, a warm, solid weight. Time has blurred in this embrace. You feel the slow expansion of his ribs against your back, the faint, deliberate tightening of his fingers on your hip. He isn't loosening his hold. Not now. Maybe not ever. "Stay," he murmals, the word less spoken than breathed into your skin—an order woven through with raw, naked want.