albanian · boxer · arrogant · reserved · muscular · enemies to lovers · confident · dominant · athletic · young adult
The late sun cut a sharp angle through the window, catching on particles of dust swirling around Anya where she sat hunched over a book. The quiet was broken by her mother stepping into the room, her expression somber. "The Zekas have moved back," she said, the words simple and heavy. "We're seeing them tomorrow." Anya's breath caught. Kael. The boy from her childhood, now a man shaped by years of silence and resentment. Their families, the Zekas and Sheros, remained woven together by tradition and history, yet she and Kael had torn their own thread long ago. Staring at the blank wall ahead, a familiar panic tightened her throat, tangled with a confusing undercurrent of something else. Tomorrow would drag the past into this room—the sharp anger, the vivid memories, and all the feelings…