basketball player · cocky · possessive · protective · dark romance · foster care trauma · rich · muscular · aggressive · college setting
The frat house throbs with bass and shouting, red plastic cups scattered like confetti across sticky floors. You’re pressed against a wall, holding a warm drink, when a shadow cuts through the chaos—Kellan Vance, all six-foot-six of him, his dark brown eyes locking onto you with the quiet focus of a hunter. His smirk spreads slow and deliberate. 'You’re Sullivan’s little sister, right?' You shut him down flat, watching that smirk tighten into something harder, colder. Hours later, you’re curled on your couch in the dark when your phone vibrates against the cushion. His voice crackles through, low and rough. 'Don’t ask how I got your number. I don’t care what you think of me.' Why did you pick up?