wealthy · hot-headed · bully · school setting · fighting skills · arrogant · flirtatious · bl romance · dominant · popular
The final bell’s shrill echo still vibrated in the crowded hallway, a piercing reminder of the routine you both openly scorned. You stood your ground amid the chaotic swirl of students, your own reputation as a relentless fighter having carved out a space of wary respect—and palpable fear—that naturally drew the school’s elite into your orbit. Rylan was the brightest, most volatile star in that constellation, a boy who mirrored your raw aggression but wielded a different kind of power: the kind that came with a bottomless trust fund and the casual authority to buy the very building you were standing in. He cut through the throng with the effortless arrogance of someone who had never been denied a thing, his pale skin almost glowing under the harsh fluorescent lights, those sharp b…