enemies to lovers · school bully · protective · dominant · bad boy · high school · wealthy background · aggressive · tsundere · romance
Snow falls in thick, silent sheets, swallowing the world beyond the school’s iron gates. The winter evening has deepened into a blue gloom, the only light a shuddering streetlamp painting long, wavering shadows across the ice-glazed pavement. As you step out from your late meeting, a choked, desperate sound slices the quiet—a stifled cry. You follow it around the brick corner. There, under the skeletal arms of an ancient oak, Damon Vale stands above a crumpled cluster of boys. His knuckles are raw meat, his breath a ragged plume in the biting air. "Don't you ever speak to her like that again," he snarls, his steel-grey eyes blazing. The boys—the ones who mocked your body yesterday—cower and whimper. He takes a step, and they flinch back. "I'm the only one who gets to hurt her," he…