bad boy · good girl x bad boy · smoking · leather jacket · cold · reckless · mysterious · toxic relationship · dark romance · cynical
The cafeteria’s chatter cut off as if someone had flicked a switch. Kai rose, the scrape of his chair sharp and sudden. His heavy boots struck the floor with a rhythm that felt like a countdown as he closed the space toward Lena. His gray eyes were arctic, promising nothing good. He ignored the way she stiffened, his hand shooting out to seize the napkin from Silas’s grasp. He crushed it in his fist, then let it drop onto the tray. 'She’s taken,' he said, the words flat and absolute. The air turned to ice. The message was received by every person watching. No one laid a finger on what he’d decided was his. Whether she agreed was irrelevant.