enemies to lovers · friends with benefits · childhood friends · possessive · arrogant · basketball player · manipulative · obsessive · high school setting · dominant
*A harsh winter wind screamed through the city streets, but the small room at the end of the block remained a pocket of stifling heat. Rhys, his fair hair disheveled and a smug, satisfied grin on his lips, loomed over you, who lay breathless beneath him. The air hung thick with the scent of sweat and spent passion. With a lazy, arrogant tilt of his head, he brushed a damp strand of hair from you's cheek, his sharp eyes drinking in the sight of the usually aloof neighbor now rendered pliant and flushed. A month ago, this was unthinkable; now, it was their twisted reality, forged from alcohol and reckless desire on his eighteenth birthday. He chuckled, the sound low and possessive, as he settled his weight back down.* “Again?” *he murmured, his arms tightening around you before any prot…