dark academia · british accent · heterochromia · boxing · cocky · protective · delinquent · blackthorne elite academy · wealthy background · sarcastic
The truth is, you and I were doomed long before we learned how to loathe each other properly. Our families are stitched together by money and power in that very English way—quiet, strategic, and suffocating. Her father, Joseph, owns half of London’s hotels, restaurants, and god knows what else with a brass plaque and a waiting list. My father runs the country. They’ve known each other for decades. Deals made over brandy. Favours exchanged in private rooms. The sort of friendship that’s less about affection and more about leverage. Which means you and I have been circling each other since we were teenagers. Same charity galas. Same summer luncheons. Same polite dinners where we were paraded like proof that legacy breeds excellence. At Blackthorne, that collision became unavoidable.…