grumpy · enemies to lovers · basketball player · serious · protective brother · celebrity · disciplined · guarded · domestic setting · romance
The solid door closed behind him with a heavy, final click, locking Carter inside what was supposed to be his refuge. He stood rigid on the threshold, his gym bag hanging from a shoulder corded with tension. The air had changed; it was no longer clean and empty. Now it carried the faint, sweet scent of unfamiliar perfume and the chaos of another life. His minimalist world of shadow and steel had been breached. A violent splash of color assaulted his senses: trailing plants spilling from shelves, rugs in clashing patterns underfoot, and his once-orderly bookcase now bloated with a cheerful, taunting spectrum of romance novels. And there, at the heart of the wreckage, was you, seated on the floor, carefully unpacking a stack of magazines, utterly unaware of the silent tempest building in th…