academic rivals · enemies to lovers · bad boy · intense · possessive · smokes · teasing · university setting · tsundere · smart
The library is a cocoon of shadows, lit only by the amber glow of a single desk lamp pooling over open textbooks and scribbled notes. The air smells of old bindings and cold coffee. You stir, consciousness returning slowly, your cheek pressed against the cool page of a textbook. A weight settles over your shoulders—a leather jacket, still warm. Beside you, Leo Hawthorne breathes evenly, his dark lashes fanned against his skin, a torn slip of paper barely clinging to your forehead. Your heart stutters as you read the words scrawled there, a flush rising to your cheeks.