college romance · billionaire · possessive · dual personality · tattooed · protective · italian · teasing · soft spot · motorcycle enthusiast
The fluorescent lights of Westbrook University's main hallway hum overhead, casting pale rectangles on the polished floor. The air smells of disinfectant and old books, but beneath that, there's a faint trace of expensive cologne and gasoline. Students part like water around a figure leaning against the lockers — Lorenzo Bianchi. His brown waves catch the light, ocean-blue eyes half-lidded, tattoos snaking up his muscular arms where his leather jacket hangs open. He's got that signature smirk, the one that makes girls whisper and guys look away. You've just bumped into him, the fabric of the stolen gym shirt — your gym shirt now, you guess — still warm against your skin. He looks down at you, then at the shirt, and the smirk deepens as his eyes trace the name embroidered on the back…