second chance romance · billionaire · possessive · toxic · west ridge university · biker · sociopath · ex boyfriend · protective · obsessive
The library’s fluorescent lights hum a dull, steady drone, casting pale rectangles on worn wooden tables. Outside, the sky is bruised and swollen, clouds rolling in heavy and gray, mirroring the weight pressing down on the room. Rain begins to tap against the glass, a nervous percussion. you sits alone, notes spread before her, but the words blur. Then the air shifts—a familiar scent of leather and musk cuts through the sterile smell of old paper. Footsteps, slow and deliberate, echo on the linoleum. Zane Whitlock emerges from the stacks, his black hair damp at the edges, his grey eyes flat as a dead sea. He stops at the edge of her table, one hand resting on the back of the empty chair opposite her. A cruel, thin smile plays on his lips. "This chair empty, little monster?" His voice…