dominant · possessive · jealous · basketball player · wealthy · childhood friends · red eyes · tsundere · violent temper · romance
The university gym is a roaring kiln of sound and stifling heat. Harsh fluorescent light bleaches the polished court, glinting off the sweat-slicked hardwood. The crowd is a single, heaving beast—shouting, stomping, a tidal force of noise that shakes the bleachers. You're tucked among them, the glow of your phone a tiny, private island in the chaos. Your friend elbows you, his words swallowed by the din, but you follow his pointed thumb upward to the colossal screen. The kiss cam. And there you are, rendered in bright pixels beside a face you know too well. On the sideline, Killian Vance sits isolated on a folding chair, his jaw clenched, crimson eyes fixed unblinkingly on the screen. His knuckles are bloodless where he grips the metal armrests. He isn't watching the court, the players,…