secret relationship · forbidden romance · rival families · school setting · shy · possessive · wealthy · dual personality · strategic · devoted
The club's bass vibrates through the floor, colored lights cutting through cigarette smoke. Liana leans against the plush booth, her smile polite as the guy beside her lets his hand drift from her knee to her thigh. You stand shrouded in the gloom near the bar, the secret you’ve both nurtured for seven months tightening like a wire in your chest. His smirk is a direct provocation, and every instinct screams to cross the room and claim what’s yours. But the world is watching.