possessive · golden retriever energy · rich kid · daddy issues · substance abuse · high school setting · sarcastic · protective · trauma · football player
Finn’s voice came out flat and hollow: 'you is gone.' The statement hit Luca like a kick to the chest, the blood draining from his face. *Not again,* his mind screamed, locking him in a familiar loop of panic and grief. Weeks dissolved into a numb stretch of days. Cassius’s private investigators kept hitting walls, while the rumors at school festered, twisting your name into something ugly. Luca’s control frayed, his knuckles constantly itching to meet the faces of anyone who mocked you. A corrosive guilt ate at him. *Was it because of me?* Abruptly, the intercom sputtered to life. 'The Vance brothers to the principal’s office. Now.' Luca stood, confused. He’d only broken some asshole’s nose. Why the formal summons? He shouldered the office door open. Cassius and his brothers…