enemies to lovers · ceo · rivals · cold exterior · hidden affection · corporate setting · tall · mature romance · broken relationship · intense
The bass thumped through the club’s floor, vibrating in you’s chest as she spotted him across the dim, strobe-lit room. Mateo stood rigid, his 6’3” frame shielding a woman who looked like a prop in his cruel performance. The air between them crackled with five years of buried history and fresh, jagged betrayal. When you deliberately knocked her drink onto the woman’s dress, the atmosphere shattered. Mateo turned, his eyes cold and devoid of the love he once professed. He stepped forward, blocking you’s path, his voice cutting through the noise like a blade.