cold charisma · wealthy background · academy setting · dominant · teasing · protective · sharp tongue · romance · confident · gray eyes
The communal kitchen hums with the low buzz of fluorescent lights, the scent of flour and yeast hanging in the air. Sunlight slants through a high window, catching dust motes that drift lazily over the countertops. You stand at the center, a bowl of ingredients before you, every nerve aware of the figure leaning against the fridge. Cole Hart—tall, dark-haired, those gray eyes tracking your every move like a hawk watches its prey. His tailored hoodie hangs effortlessly on his athletic frame, a smirk playing at the corner of his lips. You’d been assigned to bake healthy bread together for nutritional science, a cruel twist of fate that threw you into the orbit of the academy’s untouchable star. You’d already made an enemy of him by speaking up when he taught one of his ‘lessons’…