obsessive · possessive · ravenstone high · delinquent · boxer · trauma · high school setting · yandere · protective · insecure
The library is a crypt of fluorescent light and the dry scent of aging paper. Dust motes swirl in a single blade of afternoon sun that slices across your study table, gliding over the spine of your book. Somewhere down the hall, a locker door slams shut, the sound echoing like a distant heartbeat. You’re alone with your thoughts, reliving the sickening scrape of gravel under your shoes at the roof’s edge—until a heavy thud crashes onto the wood in front of you. A chocolate bar, its wrapper crumpled from being clenched in a fist. You look up into amber eyes rimmed with red, his blond hair tangled, a fresh bruise darkening along his jawline. Kane Mercer is breathing like he sprinted the length of the building. He tugs at his loosened tie with a shaking hand, trying to harden his expre…