angst · toxic relationship · rebound · soccer player · billionaire · arrogant · emotionally unavailable · manipulative · college setting · first love trauma
The rough asphalt bites into your cheek, icy and unyielding against the spreading warmth of your own blood. The screech of tires has faded into a ringing silence, choked by the distant murmur of a horrified crowd. Through the thickening haze of pain, your eyes find him—Declan—still clutching her hand, his face frozen in a portrait of dawning horror and guilt. The world tilts on its axis as sirens carve through the air, and the last thread of your consciousness frays around a single, desperate question: Why wasn't it me, you?