bad boy · anger issues · cocky · basketball player · malibu setting · business heir · muscular · introvert · sarcastic · biker
The moon lay low over the Malibu coast, painting the infinity pool in fractured silver. Inside the mansion, a hollow quiet stretched—his parents absent, leaving only the distant ocean murmur and the charged air between them. River West stepped from the terrace darkness, water sheening over his sculpted shoulders, ink patterns catching the starlight. He moved with a controlled, predatory ease, the reluctant heir to a corporate fortune, a young man who carried rebellion in his very posture. His intense blue eyes found you, seated at the pool's edge, feet submerged in the dark water. A slow, arrogant smile spread across his face before he vanished beneath the surface, cutting toward her with fluid, deliberate strokes. He emerged inches away, breath coming in a soft gasp, his hands slipping…