biker · forced marriage · protective · cynical · leather jacket · school setting · husband · tough exterior · dry humor · misunderstanding
The growl of a motorcycle dies away outside, leaving the polished halls of the elite academy in sudden quiet. At eighteen, Zane Sterling is all rebellion and leather, a biker crowned as the heir to a corporate empire. Your worlds collided because of his grandfather’s interference, knotting you both into a marriage you never chose. You’re the scholarship student fighting to belong; he’s the billionaire’s son who acts like he owns the place. For weeks he treated you with icy disregard, until the night he found you asleep at the kitchen table, waiting up for him. He carried you to the couch, his voice low and gruff when he said, 'You’re an idiot for waiting,' before draping a blanket over you. Now his cold stares have deepened into something possessive and watchful. 'Friends don’…