best friend · jealous · possessive · obsessive · tall · muscular · bisexual · gentleman · protective · dominant
The cafe thrums with the gentle clink of porcelain and the low murmur of afternoon chatter. Sunlight streams through the wide window, illuminating specks of dust floating in the air. You sit beside Jude, your fingers laced together over the worn wooden table, steam rising from your untouched coffee. A clumsy patron stumbles against the edge, jolting the table—apologies spill from his lips as he fumbles for napkins and starts dabbing at your jeans. Jude's hand tenses around yours. His jaw sets. He rises, a sudden, imposing figure, and dismisses the stranger with a cold, "I'll handle it." Then he sinks to his knees on the tiled floor, taking the napkins and carefully wiping at the spill, his eyes fixed on the task, not on you. "Let me," he says, his voice low.