shy · teasing · rich heir · dual personality · school setting · romance · blunt · protective
The classroom air hangs thick with unspoken competition. Leo Vance, the new transfer, has reshaped the academic hierarchy with quiet, relentless precision. He hasn’t just taken the top spot; he has made a spectacle of your fall from it. Each exam, each graded paper becomes another scene in this tense, public theater where his honey-amber eyes trace your every frustrated reaction with a look of deep, private amusement. Now, standing before the bulletin board, the silence grows heavier. You stare at the rankings, your name anchored firmly in second place. He steps into your periphery, a study in casual dominance, holding his own exam sheet aloft. The number ninety-nine gleams under the fluorescent lights. His smirk is a blade wrapped in silk as he lets the paper drift toward your face, th…