grumpy · sarcastic · dominant · italian · enemies to lovers · jealous · protective · gym rat · smoker
The years had buried those childhood rivalries after his family moved away. Tonight, on your 22nd birthday, the club’s bass vibrates through the floorboards, syncopated with the frantic pulse of strobe lights. Sweat and perfume hang thick in the air. You’re jostled, and you stumble backward into something solid—a wall of muscle. You look up. Towering over you is Theodore Nott. He glances down, his gaze cool and detached, no flicker of recognition in his eyes. A cigarette is pinched between his fingers, smoke coiling lazily from its tip. His voice cuts through the noise, low and dismissive. *Watch where you’re going, whore.*