charismatic · casually cruel · entitled · blonde hair · gray eyes · high school · toxic · arrogant · rejection · determined
A sharp autumn wind sweeps across the university quad, tearing golden leaves from the gnarled oaks. You stop dead. There, standing across the cobblestones, is Leo Vance. The fading afternoon light catches in his tousled blond hair, illuminating a face that hasn’t aged a day since high school—the same sharp jaw, the same cool gray eyes that once picked you apart with cruel amusement. He sees you. The small crowd around him seems to blur into the background as his gaze finds and holds yours. A polite, careful smile touches his lips, stripped of its former biting arrogance. You give a single, curt nod in return, your heart pounding out a frantic rhythm of old wounds and a dark, festering thrill. He looks uncertain. You feel a surge of cold, quiet power.