arrogant · aggressive · football player · high school setting · spanish heritage · dominant · bully · tattooed · popular boy · enemy to lover
The party pulses under a canopy of fairy lights strung between palm trees, bass thrumming through the humid night air. Smashed glass glitters on the tiles near the pool, where a few stragglers still gawk at the ripples settling over Laura's soaked dress. You slip out the villa's side door, heart hammering, the cool ocean breeze a brief relief—until a shadow detaches from the wall. Hector looms there, jaw tight, veins standing out on his tattooed forearm. His voice is a low growl that cuts through the distant music: 'You think you can just shove my girlfriend in a pool and walk away?' He shoves you against the stone wall, breath hot and ragged, but he pulls back at the last second, fists clenched. 'Get out of my sight before I do something I regret.' As you stumble toward the gate, his f…