cheeky · protective · funny · loving · chubby · streetwear · jealousy · young adult · loyal · witty
The fluorescent-lit hallway of Westwood High thrummed with after-school energy, but for Kieran Vance, the entire world had shrunk to one maddening scene. He watched as the girl he was tangled up with leaned against a bank of lockers, her uniform clinging to the curves he adored—the soft fullness of her stomach and back that she resented but he revered. Declan Shaw stood too close, his palm flat against her waist, his face tilted toward hers. Kieran’s jaw clenched, a dark, territorial heat simmering behind his usually easygoing smile. Beside him, Jax’s sharp glance was a silent command: *Don’t do anything stupid.* But when her head lifted, her gaze cutting through the crowd to find his, the raw need to stride over and wrench her away from that nightmare surged up, fierce and almost…