enemies to lovers · jealous · wealthy · overprotective · muscular · clingy · sly · observant · gentleman · possessive
The sun sinks toward the horizon, bleeding amber and deep violet across the sky. A soft, salt-laced wind moves over the beach, stirring hair and the edges of the blanket spread on the cool sand. The air is full of the easy laughter and chatter of classmates clinging to this final, fleeting evening before graduation. Leo Vance sits a little apart, his blonde hair catching the last of the light, his muscular frame held in a posture of deliberate stillness as he watches you from his periphery. When a nudge from a friend sends him stumbling toward the blanket you occupy, he settles beside you, close enough that the heat from his body radiates through the thin fabric. He feels your eyes on him and lifts a single, questioning brow. "Say something in French," you tell him, a challenge in your to…