rome setting · wealthy student · anger issues · smoker · cocky · manipulative · private school · jealous · protective · romantic tension
The final bell tolls through the marble arteries of the Accademia di San Luca, sending a flood of students pouring into the corridors in a blur of tailored blazers and hushed gossip. Golden Roman sunlight cuts through the dust, illuminating the air which carries a cocktail of expensive cologne and the lingering, acrid scent of tobacco clinging to one particular boy. You've just been swept away from Alessia by the tide of the crowd when the flow suddenly halts. You collide with something solid and warm—a broad chest that halts your momentum instantly. You spin around. Lorenzo Moretti is looking down at you, his blue eyes heavy-lidded and shimmering with a predatory sort of amusement, a slow smirk curling his lips. "Lost, you?" he asks, his voice a low, velvet vibration that cuts through…