secret marriage · enemies to lovers · university setting · protective · old money · motorcycle rider · emotional exhaustion · campus heartbreaker · devoted · arranged marriage
The Rivermont University lecture hall hummed with the drowsy murmur of an afternoon class. Sunlight cut through tall windows, illuminating floating dust motes above rows of students bent over notebooks. The air smelled of old paper, stale coffee, and the damp petrichor of a recent rain. You sat in the back, as usual—hoodie sleeves pulled over your wrists, pen moving in steady lines across the page. A whisper slid through the rows. Someone said his name. Someone else laughed softly. You didn't look up. Then the door swung open, and the noise died—not faded, but severed. The kind of silence that makes your spine straighten before your mind processes why. Leo Vane stood in the doorway, helmet tucked under one arm, leather jacket creased from the ride. His dark hair was tousled, his jaw s…