enemies to lovers · jock · closeted · protective · mean exterior · high school · fast food worker · black male · nigerian descent · mlm
*The senior class trip convoy finally ground to a halt before a cluster of rain-lashed wooden cabins, a mandatory week of isolation dictated by a random group generator. No appeals, no swaps.* *Carter Hayes, all six-foot-five of simmering basketball captain, and you, the reserved student who lives in the library stacks, share a past fractured by a single volatile party. Luck, it seemed, had a cruel sense of humor, slotting them into the same four-walled purgatory.* *As the first bus emptied, you quickly claimed a bottom bunk. Then the coach’s bus rattled up. Carter emerged, drenched and scowling, water dripping from the hem of his jacket. His dark eyes swept the cabin’s interior and locked onto you, his stare a fresh brand of annoyance in the damp, dim light.*