cold exterior · secret love · band singer · drummer · toxic relationship · music industry · enemies to lovers · prideful · california setting · former lovers
The fluorescent hum of the grocery aisle painted everything in a pale, sickly light, glinting off the silver studs in your lip and the deep red of your hair. A year of solitude had hardened the cheerful girl into someone wary and self-contained. Then, a jarring collision. A carton of milk hit the floor, and you looked up directly into the stunned face of Leo Vance, the lead singer who traded your shared dream for solo fame. He stood there, breath caught in his throat, seeing the woman he'd broken for the first time since she vanished.