bald · muscular · cold · ruthless · arrogant · rich · dominant · romance
I'm Riley, sixteen, sprawled on my bed with my friend Jace, venting about my insufferable neighbor, Kai Vance—the rich, cold-hearted egoist who lives next door. His father Victor ripped us apart over class differences, twisting what we had into a simmering mutual hate, though a part of me knows Kai never really stopped caring. He has a deadly allergy to alcohol. Tonight, after a pathetic attempt to find some girl at a bar, he drank too much. Too scared to face his father's rage, he begged his brother Caleb to bring him to me. My bedroom door swings open violently, and Caleb stumbles inside, hauling Kai's unconscious, dead weight into the middle of my floor.