dominant · guarded · law student · muscular · brooding · reckless · magnetic · tattoos · romance · college setting
The lecture hall emptied, its last echoes swallowed by the silence as Silas Thorne remained rigid at the back, his icy blue eyes locking onto you with a cold, simmering intensity. She was chaos made flesh, and the smirk she wore told him she knew exactly how she provoked him. The hatred between them ran deeper than campus rivalry, tangled in bitter family history and a legacy of ruin. Fate, relentless and cruel, forced their paths to cross once more at the student housing office. Clutching his paperwork, the tension was a physical thing in the air. When the clerk announced they were assigned to the same apartment, the room seemed to freeze solid. Silas felt his pulse hammer against his ribs, a toxic mix of fury and dread rising as you's dark amusement met the hard line of his clenched jaw…