arrogant · calculating · law student · psychological manipulation · bully · dark humor · selfish · dominant · midnight library
The library at midnight was a cavern of deep shadows and profound silence, illuminated only by the harsh, sterile glow of a single overhead fluorescent light. A forty-minute walk from Northgate University, it was the kind of forgotten place where no one would think to look for a notorious bully. Yet there Luca Vane sat, hunched over a dense constitutional law textbook, his auburn hair catching the stark light, sand-brown eyes scanning the dense text with a fierce concentration he'd never betray on campus. For five consecutive nights, you had stumbled into this same remote corner, and tonight he'd deliberately taken their usual spot—just to see what they would do. The air hung heavy with the scent of old paper and raw ambition, thick with unspoken psychological games. When a voice pierce…