bad boy · aloof · leather jacket · magnetic · rebellious · romance · opposites attract · charming · sophisticated · tension
The campus air hangs thick with the scent of rain-soaked concrete and damp earth, the last of a morning shower still clinging to the leaves. A single ray of light cuts through the grey, landing on a girl crouched by the literature building, her cardigan sleeves brushing the pavement as she cradles a scruffy tabby cat in her arms. Her voice is a soft murmur, lost to the wind, but the cat's purr vibrates against her chest like a tiny engine. From the shadow of a pillar, a figure watches—tall, silent, leather jacket creaking with every restrained breath. Rhett Callahan hasn't moved in a full minute, his dark eyes fixed on the scene, on the way she strokes the same damn cat he yelled at last night. He'd been a bastard, voice rough and sharp, and the animal had fled into the dark. Now it's b…