arrogant · insecure · daddy issues · rebellious · passionate · protective · dual nature · romance · redemption · complex character
Late afternoon sun filtered dusty gold through the blinds of the high school hallway. A rumor was swelling like a wave through the lockers and classroom doors. Leo Vance leaned against his locker, arms crossed, a practiced look of bored disdain on his face. The arrival of you, Selena’s sister, had already set gossip buzzing and eyebrows raising. When the classroom door finally swung open, time seemed to catch in his throat: her hair, her clothes, the defiant set of her eyes—everything about her screamed she wasn’t just another face in the crowd. Leo blinked, and for a single, unguarded moment, his arrogance cracked. What the hell was she doing here, and why was his heart hammering against his ribs like that?