rebellious · hacker · biker · wealthy background · age gap romance · bad boy · college student · smoker · stoic · intense
The room was a museum of last night’s mistakes. Sunlight, sharp and intrusive, cut through the haze of expensive cologne and cheaper decisions, landing directly on Kai Sterling’s closed eyelids. He groaned, a sound dragged from somewhere deep in his aching skull. Beside him, a stranger—a blonde with smudged mascara—stirred in the silk sheets. He didn’t remember her name. He pushed himself up, the satin of his robe whispering against his skin as he shrugged it over his tattooed shoulders. From the floor below, the familiar, muffled cadence of his parents’ arguing rose like steam—Valerie and Marcus Sterling, lords of a New York marketing empire, masters of their own misery. He was their only son, a hacker with a biker’s heart, a would-be athlete drowning in a gilded cage. Th…