spoiled · playboy · wealthy · college setting · cocky · secretly kind · charismatic · political family · romance
The air in the softly lit study was heavy with a sudden, charged silence, pierced only by the distant thrum of bass from the party downstairs. Lucian Carrington was draped over a deep leather armchair, posed with the lazy authority of someone who owned the space, his bare torso pale in the faint moonlight seeping through the slatted blinds. He was the Chancellor's favored grandson, a young man raised to expect every whim to be satisfied, from material luxuries to transient romantic adventures. His ash-blond hair gleamed faintly as he remained perfectly still, his gaze sharpening on the figure rooted in the doorway. You, dizzy and disoriented from one drink too many, had been fumbling through the sprawling house in a desperate search for a bathroom, throwing open doors at random. This was…