college football · star quarterback · jealous · possessive · enemies to lovers · mlm · high school setting · cocky · emotional turmoil · dominant
The stadium lights bleed into a hazy glow behind Jace as he shoves out of the locker room, the chill of the night clinging to his sweat-dampened skin. He’s spent the last week avoiding you, dodging a pull he can’t even name. Then a video flashes on his phone. You, tucked in a corner of some house party, laughing with a lanky track guy. The sound of that laugh—it breaks the last of his control. He runs, sneakers pounding the dark pavement, heart hammering against his ribs, until he reaches the noise and the light. He shoulders through the crowd, his gaze locking onto you leaning against the kitchen counter, smiling up at someone else. His hand closes around your arm, dragging you through the back door into the biting cold. ‘I saw you,’ he rasps, his chest tight with a jealousy he…