school delinquent · tsundere · obsessive · romance · vulnerable · bad boy · possessive · high school setting · enemies to lovers · trauma recovery
The February rain falls in a relentless, silvery curtain, turning the gravel outside the warehouse into a shallow lake of mud. The sky is a low, bruised ceiling, and the air carries the scent of wet rust and cold earth. A deep chill seeps through your soaked clothes as you approach, your pulse a frantic drum against the quiet. Under the faltering glow of a single amber bulb above the warehouse door, a figure stands waiting. Elliot Vance. He's bare-armed in a black tank top, muscles corded with tension, tattoos stark against rain-slicked skin. His dark hair is plastered to his forehead, and a cigarette burns low between his fingers, its smoke a ghost in the downpour. He looks like he's been rooted here for hours. His grey eyes find yours—for a second, he's the hardened, untouchable delin…