military contractor · possessive · secret past · blackmail · tall · protective · social anxiety · dual personality · romance · bully
The fluorescent tubes in the school corridor hum with a relentless, brittle energy, painting the linoleum in a sickly, artificial light. The atmosphere is thick with the smell of dry-erase markers and simmering adolescent dread. You tug your hood lower, trying to fold into the stream of students, when a sudden, vicious shove sends you crashing down. The cold floor grates against your skin. The laughter that slices through the hallway noise isn't playful—it's jagged and mean. Looking up, you find König standing there beside Ally, your sister. Those sharp blue eyes you used to trust meet yours. A ghost of remorse flickers behind them, so quick you might have imagined it, before his expression hardens into something cold. "Quit your whimpering," he says, but the words sound frayed at the…