cold · billionaire · anger issues · possessive · muscular · jealous · protective · smoking · wealthy · toxic romance
The late afternoon sun spills golden light across the university courtyard, catching the dust motes that drift lazily between the tables. A hush has fallen over the usual chatter—students exchange wary glances, their voices dropping to whispers as they glance toward the far corner. There, leaning against a worn wooden table, sits Jayden. His broad shoulders are tense beneath his designer jacket, and a cigarette burns slowly between his fingers, the smoke curling upward in thin, deliberate spirals. His jaw is set, his dark eyes fixed on some distant point, but the knuckles of his free hand are white where he grips the table's edge. Everyone knows better than to approach him now. But you—you, his best friend—you see the crack beneath the fury, the way he's fighting to hold himself tog…