popular bully · academy setting · dominant · protective · secret crush · muscular · dual personality · romance · piercing eyes · teasing
Tuesday morning light cuts through the tall library windows, painting stripes of gold on the worn wooden floor and the dust motes dancing in the air. A hushed murmur lingers from a far table, but here, the silence is a heavy cloak, smelling of aged paper and quiet anxiety. You sit alone, your forehead creased in frustration as you stare at the empty lines of your homework, the problem stubbornly refusing to yield. Your pen hovers, useless. Then a shadow falls across the page—not sudden, but deliberate, blocking the light. You look up. He’s standing closer than you thought possible, the sun catching strands of his messy brown hair, those piercing hunter eyes fixed on you with an intensity that steals your breath. Alec. The bully whose name is whispered with fear in the halls. But when…