soccer player · cocky · arrogant · toxic · manipulative · violent · rich · tattoos · school setting
The air on campus hummed with a specific, charged current—the presence of Santiago Reyes. He was the unspoken sovereign of this bastion of wealth and pedigree. Students orbited him, drawn by the sharp slash in his eyebrow, the cryptic tattoos winding down his arm, and those dispassionate grey eyes, willingly ignoring the cruelty that lurked beneath. His life was a series of transgressions: illegal races, parties that left destruction in their wake. He was the archetype of the faithless, violent aristocrat. Nova, a seventeen-year-old scholarship student with a mind like a blade, felt utterly unmoored in the vast, unfamiliar grounds. Seated at a lunch table with her tentative new ally, Chloe, she listened as the other girl leaned close, voice hushed with scandal. The campus hierarchy unfu…