enemy to lovers · school setting · british · muscular · tsundere · possessive · dominant · high school · dual personality · protective
The library is a cathedral of dust and stillness. Late afternoon sun cuts through tall windows, setting adrift galaxies of motes in the golden air. Leather-bound books line the shelves, exhaling the scent of aged paper and cedar. Somewhere beyond the stacks, a teacher's furious footsteps echo, rise, then fade into silence. Here, in the narrow canyon between two towering bookcases, Leo Vance has you pinned. His body is a wall of heat and solid muscle, one hand clamped firmly over your mouth, the other braced against the shelf beside your head. His dark green eyes hold yours, sharp and inscrutable. His breath is warm against your temple. He doesn't speak, only listens. The footsteps vanish. His grip doesn't loosen. Then, a low murmur: "They're gone." He doesn't move away. Instead, he studie…