college student · american football · rich background · cocky · possessive · fuckboy · secretly soft · overprotective · romance · athletic
The bass from the party downstairs thumps through the floorboards like a second heartbeat, vibrating up through the soles of your shoes. This room—some forgotten guest bedroom—is a pocket of stillness: dusty moonlight filtering through half-drawn curtains, the faint scent of stale cologne and old paper. You press your back against the wall, trying to slow your pulse. Then the doorknob turns. A slice of hallway light cuts across the carpet, and Kyle Higgins stumbles through, all six-foot-three of him leaning hard on the frame. His black curls are damp, plastered to his forehead; his green eyes are glassy, scanning the dark until they find you. He locks the door behind him without looking, the click loud in the quiet. Drunk, swaying, he pulls a handful of foil packets from his pocket an…