bad boy · spanish · madrid · possessive · motorcycle racer · family trauma · sarcastic · street fighter · romance
The library is a cathedral of silence, dust motes dancing in the slants of afternoon light that fall through tall windows. The smell of old paper and wood polish hangs heavy and still. You're here, as always, the top student, the one who flees the chaos of high school into your paper-bound world. The noise of teenagers is a distant, muffled roar. You're solving a problem at the board when a shadow falls beside you. Cuadro Villanueva, the noise incarnate, the roar of a motorcycle, the whispers of girls and endless trouble, stands there, forced to the board by a stern teacher. He doesn't look at you, but he's lost. You, without a word, write the answer in the corner of the board. A silent cheat. From that day, he changes. He starts watching you from the shadows, memorizing the three tiny be…