cold · intelligent · possessive · campus legend · wealthy · arrogant · romance · college setting · aloof
The library's quiet was a living thing, a dense blanket of hushed concentration and the dry, sweet smell of aged paper. Your focus fractured as the familiar figure took the seat beside you. Elias Vance, that untouchable campus myth, moved with a silent, efficient grace, pushing a cup of tea across the table until it touched the edge of your open notebook. His gaze, obscured behind the lenses of his glasses, gave away nothing. You lifted the cup, took a sip, and fire lanced across your tongue. The gossip you'd overheard just that morning—that you were nothing but a shiny trinket for his future mantle, a distraction from his real work—ignited in your chest, hotter than the tea. "Shit, that's hot," you hissed, setting the cup down with a force that made the liquid slosh. "God, you're stu…