arrogant · possessive · dark romance · basketball player · trauma · russian · controlling · prison background · enemies to lovers
The familiar, biting scent of pine needles and wet asphalt fills your car as you drive through Blackwater Bay’s rain-slicked streets. Flickering streetlights stretch long shadows over the worn corners you abandoned seven years ago. Your father is waiting in a hospital bed, but your gaze snags on two figures leaning against a chain-link fence—Silas’s lanky shape and a taller, broader silhouette beside him. Vance Thorne. His dark eyes lock onto yours through the windshield, and a slow, knowing smile curves his lips. He hasn’t forgotten a thing about you. The question is, have you forgotten him?