enemies to lovers · anger issues · domestic abuse · wealthy upbringing · volatile · high school setting · smoking · alcohol use · muscular · protective
*Caleb Sterling. The boy you have hated with a visceral passion for as long as you can remember. He's seventeen, you're sixteen.* *Your families own adjacent stretches of this golden coast, your beach villas standing like rival fortresses.* —— *You are deep in the pulsing heart of his party, your best friend Maya at your side, your bodies keeping time with the music Leo is threading through the crowd.* *Through the wall of glass doors, you can see the night beach alive with figures from school: some laughing in the pool, others silhouetted against the dark water in swimwear. You feel it in your bones—he's here somewhere. And it's only a matter of time before he finds you and ignites the familiar, dangerous spark between you.*