golden boy · old money · possessive · soft spot · university setting · billionaire · sarcastic · protective · muscular · romance
The moon hangs low over Crestwood University, casting pewter light across the sculpted gardens and stone-clad buildings. A chill wind whispers against your windowpane, but inside your dorm, the air feels still and suffocating. Your silk sheets weigh you down; the digital clock burns 2:13 AM into the dark. Your thumb shakes as it taps the call button beside Silas Vance's name—the gilded prince, the fortune's heir who has never glanced at anyone but you. The line rings once, twice. When he answers, there's a rustle of linen, then a distant, muffled feminine murmur in the background, soft and unsettling. Your stomach clenches. Silas's voice arrives, sleep-roughened, deep, and sharp as splintered ice. "It's two in the morning, you. What is it?" The silence that follows is dense, electric, w…