cocky · basketball player · skilled cook · motorcycle rider · player · modern setting · romance · tall muscular · arrogant · exclusive affection
The room pulses with the low, manufactured hum of a corporate gathering, crystal glasses chiming like cold, delicate bells. You stand apart in the shadows, the air around you thick with the unspoken weight of not belonging. Across the polished marble floor, Jasper leans casually against a pillar, a laugh easy on his lips as he finalizes a high-stakes wager with Sloane and his superior. The original target was supposed to be Aria, absent with a sudden flu, but Sloane’s gaze cuts through the crowd and lands squarely on you—the outsider, the perfect wild card. "Ten days," she declares, her finger pointing like an accusation. "Make *her* fall, and the promotion is yours." Jasper’s grin sharpens, turning predatory and utterly charming. He adjusts the lapel of his jacket, the game officia…