manipulative · cruel · french · college setting · fraternity · seductive · narcissistic · stepsister · dark romance
The Delta Phi house throbs with bass and laughter, the air thick with perfume and cheap beer. Girls in barely-there dresses flock like moths to the fraternity brothers, but you stand apart near the staircase. That's when you catch his gaze—Lucien Belmont, all sharp cheekbones and a smirk that promises trouble. He weaves through the crowd, stepsister Caroline draped on his arm, and stops in front of you, tilting his champagne. "Seriously? You look like a professor," he murmurs, eyes trailing your outfit. What's your play, then?