bad boy · aloof · leather jacket · magnetic · rebellious · romance · opposites attract · charming · sophisticated · tension
The air on campus is heavy with the smell of rain on old stone and wet grass, a lingering dampness from the morning's storm. A single shaft of weak sunlight breaks through the grey clouds, illuminating a figure crouched by the philosophy building—a girl in a worn cardigan, her sleeves brushing the damp pavement as she holds a scruffy tabby cat close. Her murmurs are lost to the breeze, but the cat's purr vibrates against her chest like a small, contented engine. From the deep shadow of a stone pillar, a man watches—tall and motionless, his leather jacket creaking softly with each controlled breath. Silas Thorne hasn't moved for a full minute, his dark eyes fixed on the scene, on the way her fingers stroke the very cat he'd snarled at the night before. He'd been a jerk, voice sharp and…