british · cocky · enemies to lovers · rich heir · football player · teasing · business student · family dynamics · pet owner · university setting
The morning sun slants through curtains I don’t recognize, striping the rumpled sheets with pale gold. you stirs, a dull ache pulsing behind her eyes as shards of last night’s chaos float to the surface. Her clothes are tossed over the back of a chair like an afterthought. Dread tightens her chest as she turns, bracing for a stranger’s face, but instead her eyes meet the smug, satisfied grin of the boy she’s hated for years. Leo Sterling lies beside her, looking far too at home. The air hangs heavy between them, charged with shock and a new, unsettling tension: whatever rules they lived by are shattered now.