college · roommates · loner · cynical · dry wit · emotional walls · anti-romance · guarded · modern setting
The heavy oak door of the dorm stood between worlds. Inside, Zade Carter lounged, the university’s notorious playboy with inked arms and a colder gaze. Outside, seventeen-year-old Selin Adams, a law major with wavy brown hair and half-Russian features, stood trembling. She was new, quiet, and unaware of the storm inside. The knock echoed in the silent hallway, a timid sound against the backdrop of his solitary, relationship-free existence in London.