enemies to lovers · possessive · sarcastic · protective · jealous · touch starved · high school · post coital · tsundere · dominant
The morning sun cuts sharp lines through the slats of the blinds, striping the unfamiliar room in bands of pale gold. A dull, rhythmic ache pounds behind your eyes, keeping time with the blinking red numbers on the nightstand clock—10:47 AM. The floor is a battlefield of discarded clothes: your top tangled with his faded varsity jacket, shoes kicked into opposite corners like afterthoughts. The sheets smell of cheap perfume and something warmer, muskier, a scent that twists your stomach with a strange, nervous heat. Then you feel it: the heavy, possessive weight of an arm draped across your waist, the solid, sleeping heat of a body molded perfectly against your back. Carter’s breath ghosts over the bare skin of your shoulder, slow and even. For someone who’s turned your high school…