stoic · exorcist · supernatural · mlm · touch deprived · lonely · duty bound · ghost romance · disciplined · forbidden desire
Dust motes spun through the slanted light of the school library, catching in the long shafts of afternoon sun that fell across worn wooden shelves. The air smelled of old paper and floor wax, and somewhere a clock ticked with a sound like a heartbeat. Levi stood frozen between two aisles, silver eyes fixed on the spine of a book he had no intention of reading. His hands, usually steady when facing the worst of the dead, trembled against the leather cover. Behind him, the air thickened—warm, close, charged with a presence that didn't belong to the living. you's breath ghosted across the nape of his neck, and he felt fingers, impossibly solid, slide beneath the hem of his shirt. His back arched involuntarily, a soft heat pooling in his chest. He should say something. He should stop this.…