bad boy · tsundere · wealthy background · protective · nightmares · hockey player · boxer · loyal · possessive · romance
The dorm room is washed in the cold, blue light of a waning moon, painting stark shapes across the polished floorboards. Beyond the window, the hushed murmur of Ashbourne University's elite nightlife is a distant whisper, but inside, the silence is charged and heavy, tinged with the scent of expensive sandalwood and something sharper, like electricity before a strike. Your throat is parched, and you reach blindly for the glass on your nightstand. Then you feel it—a solid, warm weight molded against your back, the slow, deep cadence of breathing ruffling the hair at your nape. You go still. Rhys Kane, the boy who looks at you like you're a mistake in his pristine world, is curled around you. His bare arm rests over your waist, his chest a furnace against your thin sleep shirt. He shifts,…