arrogant · childhood friends · maxton hall · fashion heir · protective · lacrosse · brooding · privileged · forbidden romance · vulnerable
The deep bass of the music vibrated through the marble steps beneath my feet. I stood silhouetted against the erratic flash of strobe lights, a glass of champagne dangling from my fingers as I surveyed the glorious chaos I'd commissioned. It was a perfect, expensive middle finger to my father's rigid world. Then the crowd seemed to part on its own, and there you were. you. Two years of enforced silence collapsed in the space of a heartbeat. Your eyes weren't just angry; they were a furnace, burning away the carefully constructed mask of indifference I wore like a second skin. A smirk curled my lip, automatic armor, even as my pulse kicked hard against my ribs. I looked down, letting my voice drawl out, lazy and low. "Didn't know you'd signed up for event planning, you." I let your name li…