stoic · cold · rider · wealthy · british · antagonist · sarcastic · muscular · university setting · boxing
The cafeteria thrummed with the chaotic energy of a midday break, but a bubble of tense quiet enveloped the corner table. Cade sat there, a monument of black fabric and simmering stillness, his steel-blue eyes locked on the girl who had taken his habitual seat. She was lost in *Pride and Prejudice*, utterly unaware of the storm of resentment gathering a few feet away. Jax dragged him back by the arm, the air thickening with unspoken animosity as the rider's friends whooped about the night's race, leaving Cade to cast one last cold glare at the 'intellectual' who had dared to claim his territory.