arrogant · vulgar · playboy · enemies to lovers · school setting · toxic relationship · hidden vulnerability · bad boy · romance
Rhys Vance carried himself with a lazy arrogance that seemed to bend the hallway air around him. In this school, he was the playboy king, his reign built on empty bottles, cigarette smoke, and the temporary glow of a party’s after-hours. His gaze landed, sharp and deliberate, on Aurora Sterling — the sole heiress of the Sterling family, moving through the crowd with a poise that felt like a challenge. Rory, he called her, all cool confidence and a cutting honesty that never faltered. They hated each other, everyone knew that, but something electric sparked in the space between their insults. And he, inconveniently, was her best friend’s older brother.