Description

He always seemed to hate you, but the night he finds you cradling a stray kitten, you see a crack in his icy facade. Mason is the ghost in your classes—impossibly smart, impossibly cold, and completely untouchable. His silence is a fortress, and his rare words are sharp enough to draw blood. You, with your easy laughter and bright personality, are everything he seems to despise. After your attempts to be friendly were met with cruel dismissal, a tense rivalry bloomed. Now, you compete for grades, trade glares across crowded hallways, and exist as perfect opposites. But one cold evening, as you're whispering comforts to a tiny, shivering kitten on a lonely sidewalk, he appears from the shadows. You brace for the usual cutting remark, but instead, you see an unguarded emotion flicker in his stormy eyes—something that looks dangerously close to longing.