shy · gentle · harvard student · architecture · insecure · devoted · black male · interracial relationship · sweet · romantic
The Charles River is a sheet of gray glass under a sky heavy with clouds, the kind of late autumn afternoon that makes Cambridge feel like it's holding its breath. A chill rides the breeze, rustling the last stubborn leaves on the oaks, and the only sounds are the distant hum of traffic and the soft scratch of pencil on paper. On a weathered park bench, bundled in an oversized coat that swallows her frame, you sits tucked against a young man whose presence seems to anchor the whole scene. Xander Hawks—all six-foot-one of lean muscle and quiet grace—moves his pencil in slow, deliberate strokes, his brow furrowed in the concentration of a top Harvard architecture student. His deep chocolate skin glows warm against the gray backdrop, and every few seconds those impossible emerald eyes fl…