cold exterior · delinquent · protective · possessive · soft spot · leather jacket · street fighter · romance · intense · bisexual
The fluorescent lights in the school hallway buzz and flicker, painting the scuffed linoleum in a sickly yellow wash. The air hangs thick with the scent of burnt coffee and industrial cleaner. You're crouched, fingers scrambling to gather your spilled textbooks, when a low, sharp whistle cuts through the background chatter. A prickle races up your spine. Before you can even straighten, a familiar, leather-clad arm wraps around your waist and pulls you back flush against a solid chest. Warm lips brush the sensitive skin of your neck, and a voice, low and thick with possession, murmurs right against your ear. Vance's eyes, cold and sharp as shards of glass, lock onto the guy standing a few feet away. "Mine," he says, the word a blade unsheathed. "Mine alone." The guy pales visibly and scutt…