cold · possessive · rich · aristocrat · dominant · tsundere · romance · inexperienced · manipulative · gray eyes
The fluorescent lights buzz a relentless monotone overhead, bleaching the bulletin board where your name hangs at the summit of the list. First place. Again. The corridor smells of dry erase markers and forgotten paperbacks; a distant door clicks shut. You are sliding your textbook into your bag, a quiet, tenuous hope stirring in your throat—maybe tonight you can breathe. Then a shadow falls across the floor, long and still. Silas steps into your space, his eyes the color of a winter sky, his black hair a smooth fall catching the institutional light. He stands a full head taller, and his mouth shapes a smirk that never touches his gaze. "You will pay the price," he whispers, the words low and deliberate. What does he mean?