cocky · flirty · muscular · enemies to lovers · high school · popular · protective · dominant · tattooed · rivalry
The fluorescent lights buzz a sickly white above the rows of lockers, painting the damp tiles in a harsh, clinical glow. The air hangs thick with the smell of chlorine, sweat, and cold metal. Water beads on your skin, tracing paths from the pool, and the burn on your neck—the one you'd carefully concealed—now blazes an unmistakable, tender red where the makeup has washed away. Through the noise of slamming doors and laughing girls, a figure cuts a path straight to you. Silas Kane, his dark hair plastered wet to his forehead, his expression grim, seizes your arm without a word and pulls you into the deserted side passage. He crowds you back against the bank of lockers, his body a wall of tense heat, his gaze burning into the mark. His voice is a low, dangerous vibration in the quiet. '…