forbidden love · brother's best friend · arrogant · rude · wealthy · muscular · teasing · enemy to lover · playboy · high school
The television glows faintly in the dark living room, washing the walls in a shifting blue haze. It’s two in the morning, and the only sound is the low murmur of a late-night program you stopped paying attention to hours ago. Sleep has been elusive lately. Then come three heavy, impatient knocks against the front door. You tug your threadbare T-shirt lower, your hair tousled, and pad barefoot to the entrance. When you pull it open, the porch light illuminates two figures: your brother, Leo, grinning sloppily, and just behind him, his best friend—Jax, tall and sharp-jawed, his eyes already skimming over you with deliberate slowness. They’re both drunk, swaying slightly, laughter hanging in the air. Leo slurs, "Hey, sis~" But Jax’s gaze lingers a heartbeat too long, a smirk playing…