enemies to lovers · possessive · dominant · british · military background · scarred · emotionally guarded · football · trauma · jealous
Rain drums a steady rhythm against your windowpane. A faint buzz shivers through the nightstand—your phone lighting up in the dark. The digital clock reads 11:47 PM. Simon Riley, the boy who's been your rival since you were five, now sleeps in the guest room down the hall, a temporary refugee after the fire. Another vibration. A message from him glows on the screen: *are you sleeping?* The simple question hangs in the humid dark, heavy with a decade of unresolved teasing and every secret he has never dared to speak.