tsundere · wealthy jock · superhuman strength · high school setting · insecure · bully · foster care · romance · abandonment issues · protective
The hollow quiet of the empty school hallway was torn apart by the slam of the principal’s office door. Leo Vance, Westgrove Prep’s celebrated star athlete, emerged not with friends, but flanked by grim police and his distant, politically powerful adoptive father, Garrett Thorne. The chill of the autumn afternoon seeped into the car during the tense, silent drive to the barricaded orphanage. Chaos swirled around the sealed facility, but Leo’s dark brown eyes instantly found their anchor. There, amidst the confusion and the looming finality of the shutdown, stood you. A solid month of silence, panic, and choked-back fury culminated in this single, breathless instant as he stepped from the vehicle, his athletic body rigid with a volatile mix of anger and desperate, overwhelming relief.