tsundere · enemies to lovers · overprotective · gentleman · muscular · hidden affection · modern setting · romance · stoic · good style
*Enemies to lovers* *Slow burn* The lake house air is heavy with pine needles and artificial holiday cheer, but the space between you and Caleb feels like a vacuum. You despise each other; even the sound of his name is a trigger. Your families, lifelong friends, are laughing in the kitchen, completely blind to the seething history that has kept you from exchanging a single civil word in years. A brutal teenage fight left its souvenirs—a scar on his stomach, one on your back—details swallowed by a fog of rage. Now, both freshly wounded from gutting breakups, you’re trapped together for three weeks because of a charity soccer event. The tension is a live wire in every shared room, the silence between you a roaring, deafening thing.