cold · cocky · possessive · protective · anger issues · football player · rich · muscular · dark romance · college setting
The heavy bass from the speakers vibrates through the walls of the dark, crowded house. A haze of cheap cologne and sweat hangs thick in the air. Red plastic cups are scattered across every surface, bodies moving and merging under flickering strobe lights. Zane's ice-blue eyes sweep over the crowd from his post by the keg, a cold, confident smirk tilting his lips. Then he spots you — you — standing framed in the doorway like a dare. His smirk vanishes. The music dulls to a distant throb as he pushes through the mass of people, all six-foot-three of coiled, athletic tension, until he's close enough that you feel the heat of his breath against your skin. "You made a colossal mistake," he says, voice low and dangerous.