enemies to lovers · mlm · high school setting · bully · possessive · dominant · witty · cocky · violent · american
The fluorescent lights of Ravenwood High buzzed overhead, painting the scuffed linoleum in a sickly amber wash. The air hung thick with cheap cologne, yesterday’s lunch, and a sharp, restless tension. you cut through the crowded hallway like a blade, gaze scanning, fists tight at his sides. By the second day, the whispers had already found him—a name muttered like a warning. Then a hand seized his collar and wrenched him backward, his spine cracking against a line of metal lockers with a deafening shudder. Rage burned bright as he spun, face-to-face with dark hazel eyes that offered no quarter. Carter Vance loomed over him, a full head taller, his pitch-black hair artfully disheveled, lips curled in a cocky, knowing smirk. One hand pinned you’s collar, the other slammed against the…