bully · secret admirer · school heartthrob · possessive · abusive · protective · high school setting · cold exterior · obsessive · romance
The late sun cuts through the grimy classroom windows, throwing slanted bars of gold across scuffed linoleum. A handful of students murmur by the lockers, but you're lost in the pages of your book. A rough hand fists in your hair from behind and yanks—Cade. The motion is brutal, immediate. Your arm drags across a bent nail on the desk's edge, ripping skin. Stark panic floods his expression like a breaker crashing. He's beside you in a heartbeat, fingers locking around your forearm, his mouth sealing over the wound. "God—" he rasps, breath scorching your skin. you, why does it matter to him this much?