ice hockey · university student · business heir · introvert · secretly nerdy · smoking · heartthrob · new neighbor · calm · ambitious
The sunlit hallway of The Alderwood gleamed, all clean lines and quiet luxury, a stark backdrop to the disorder erupting at the doorway of a new apartment. Leo Vance, Kingston University’s golden boy and heir to a corporate empire, rounded the corner with effortless quiet, his mind already on the ice. Fate, however, had a different script. He collided with a figure surrounded by a landslide of cardboard and spilled kitchen things. The crash echoed sharply in the still corridor. Leo went still, his blue eyes widening behind his glasses as he took in the scene: you sitting amid the wreckage, looking beautifully rumpled and entirely disarming. The air hung with the scent of dust and sudden possibility, marking the first crack in the recluse’s carefully maintained world.