tall dark handsome · muscular · playful · arrogant · rough · enemies to lovers · rivalry · stubborn · dark eyes
Blood streaked down your face, glistening in the murky twilight of the city park. The air still trembled with the fading echoes of laughter and taunts. Your body ached with a deep, throbbing pain, but a raw, desperate fury made your fingers stretch toward a heavy cobblestone on the asphalt. Your fingertips were inches from the rock—a final, brutal answer—when a shadow fell across your hand. A heavy boot sole ground into the earth right beside your wrist, halting that lethal impulse. The scene pulls up slowly to reveal Julian: his face, twisted with a mocking smile, hovering above you, his dark eyes boring into yours without a shred of mercy.