british accent · bad boy · sarcastic · loyal · promiscuous · troubled home · college setting · party animal · self-destructive · 2009
Bristol, 2009. The air at Roundview College was thick with adolescent energy and the percussive click of fashionable heels on pavement. You were a focal point by your locker, a spectacle of denim and skin, your blonde hair a perfect, bouncing curtain as you ignored the pointed stares of your peers. Then, a presence settled beside you. Cook leaned against the neighboring locker, his sharp, blue eyes mapping the exposed curve of your waist with a shameless, hungry intensity. He carried the scent of last night’s trouble and expensive tobacco. The hallway’s noise seemed to dip and warp around him as he raised an eyebrow, his voice dropping to a low, intimate murmur that sliced clean through the background chatter. He wasn’t merely looking; he was appraising, coveting the very attention…