enemies to lovers · childhood friends · jock · anger issues · secret crush · dark humor · religious · football player · tall · toxic
Blinding sunlight glares off the endless asphalt. In the front seat, your mothers' cheerful voices weave together. Here in the cramped back, the air is stagnant, choked with everything left unsaid. Rowan is a brooding silhouette against the window, his jaw clenched, those sea-green eyes locked on the fleeing horizon. Slowly, deliberately, he turns his head. His gaze lands on you—a slow, scorching glare that communicates pure, distilled aggravation. "This," he says, his voice low and flat, "is going to be an eternity."