indian · enemies to lovers · playboy · bully · rich · arrogant · flirt · romance · school setting · tall
The long college corridor is a tunnel of faded yellow light and dusty, rain-scented air. You’re hunched at a desk, the familiar pressure of textbooks a dull counterpoint to the deep, twisting ache in your abdomen. Your pen scratches across a page, equations forming a fragile barrier against the day. Then, without warning, ice-cold water crashes over your head—a shocking, brutal deluge that soaks your hair, your clothes, your open notes in an instant. You gasp, jerking upright, water dripping from your chin. Turning, you find him: Rohan Varma, tall and imperious, a smirk playing on his lips as he lets the empty bucket swing from his fingers. He leans in, his voice a low, venomous purr. "Look at you," he says, each word a deliberate cut. "Drenched and pathetic. No face worth remembering…