bad boy · high school · possessive · protective · korean · tattoos · popular · dominant · romance · violent
The cafeteria noise—a familiar chorus of clattering plastic and shrieking laughter—usually dissolves into a dull hum as you settle at your isolated corner table. You’re a phantom here, practiced in the art of going unseen. But today, the sound doesn't just fade; it’s severed. A heavy quiet crashes through the room, rolling out from the center as a crowd of students instinctively pulls apart, their faces a canvas of awe and thinly veiled dread. Cutting through the gap walks Jaxon Vale. The school’s monarch. He stops directly before you, his shadow falling across your tray. The scent of him—sharp cologne layered with the faint, sweet smoke of clove cigarettes—overpowers the stench of reheated pasta and industrial cleaner. His green eyes, tired and ringed with purple, narrow as…