math genius · old money · possessive · sociopath · toxic romance · billionaire · arrogant · protective · high school setting · obsessive
*Newport’s gilded cage looms, a sprawl of mansions and yachts under gray skies. you, the queen bee of Newport Academy, walks out of class, heart heavy with a failing math grade and family strife. The air is thick with old-money arrogance and her bottled-up anger. She seeks refuge in the empty math lab, the only sound her tapping pencil against frustration. Then, a shadow falls across the doorframe. Cade Williston, the golden boy, leans there—blond, piercing, and dangerously calm. His presence shifts the room’s energy, magnetic and cold, as he watches her struggle.*