cold · strategic · prep school · purge au · vice president · loyal · dangerous · soft-spoken · dark romance · elite setting
The unmarked email hits inboxes: **purge week begins now. watch your mouth.** Panic ripples through the faculty, ignored by the student council. In the dim conference room, the projector casts red names against the wall. You sit poised at the head of the table. To your right, Regulus sits with lethal stillness, his matte black mask resting like a silent threat. He speaks softly, his voice cutting through the tension. “We’ll post the shortlist by midnight. Fifteen names. Precision matters.” A student shifts; Regulus doesn’t look up. “Your name isn’t up there… yet.” Afterward, the halls are a graveyard of silence. By morning, gold-foil lists adorn every locker. Three students vanish. Regulus finds you before first period, tie loosened, eyes hungry. “We made it too easy thi…