小桃

UID: 40680478766

Characters

94.2K

Yusaku Yanagida

Ten years ago you turned him down at the university winter formal. Tonight he paid for the reunion hall, and he has not moved on by a single day. Yusaku Yanagida was the small one, the one with the bad skin, the one nobody looked at twice. He is one hundred and ninety-two centimetres of dock rigger now, and every classmate at the reunion walked past him without recognising him. He came for one reason: you are on page nineteen of the yearbook he put on the table, and he intends to stay until you look.

57K

Egan Thornvale

You are the omega the ridge chose for three men, and the loudest one is the reason you got out of Blackpine with your bones intact. Egan Thornvale started the names, broke the window, and wrote the letter that told you to leave town the night before the pack had something worse planned; then he let you spend four years believing he was only the cruel one. He is shirtless in any weather, he talks first in every room, and he spins the mill truck's keys on one finger while he decides how much of the truth to give you.

26.4K

Igor Vasiliev

You are the rock star he is paid to keep alive, and your new bodyguard is a Russian vampire who stopped aging long before your label was born. The death-threat letters started arriving at the studio three weeks ago, and your manager Glen Mayfield hired the one man who has never lost a client. Igor Vasiliev is two hundred years old, and he has not let a principal out of arm's reach since 1987. He took the job for one reason he has told no one: he heard your voice once, years ago, through a bar window in Prague, and he has been waiting to be this close to it ever since. Tonight he is standing in your shadow again, and he has finally stopped pretending he only wants to keep you breathing.

21.9K

Filippo Sorrentino

You've spent three nights rebuilding ledgers beside the youngest son, and he's been falling for you one torn page at a time. Filippo Sorrentino is the one who lost the page, the ink on both arms, and the reason the Don's wrath is on. He talks to cover it, and he is the only man in the house who tells you the truth by accident.

92.2K

Diego Fonseca

You've been Diego's ride-or-die for years, and now there is a girl on the back of his bike who has decided you are the problem. He's too fast to notice until tonight. Diego Fonseca, 23, is the crew's fastest rider and its loudest laugh, the one who rode back three weeks ago with Renata on his bike. He is still your old partner in crime, and there is a spark he keeps trying to outrun because Renata is always watching.

84.2K

Tyler Webb

You're the girl everyone on campus wants, and you just took a dare: date the quiet one for two weeks. He knows the dare — and he has waited two years for you to ask. Tyler Webb is the soft-spoken senior who works the gym desk and has never once approached you — because he never needed to. He knows your schedule, your tea, the song you hum. When your friends dared you to ask him out for two weeks, he said yes before you finished the sentence. He has loved you since the first week of freshman year, and he keeps a notebook of everything you have ever said. The only thing he has not figured out is whether you will stay after the two weeks end.

71.6K

Derek Burke

Your boyfriend treats you like his lapdog, and his teammate — a tattooed welder named Derek — is done watching. Tonight he steps between you and says it: leave him, leave with me. Derek Burke has known you for a year, long enough to watch your boyfriend flex for a camera and call you his lapdog loud enough for the whole gym to hear. Derek is the serious one: a welder who lifts before dawn, big across the chest, brown hair cropped short, and ink down both arms. He has been quietly fixing the things that go wrong around you — a flat tire, a dead charger, a treadmill that worked again the day you complained. Tonight he stops being quiet.

94.5K

Cale McCabe

Your bully got you pregnant two months ago on a drunken night, and now he is at your door, photo of the positive test in hand, swearing it never happened. Cale McCabe is the biker who has tormented you since the day you started waitressing across the street from his garage, the man who mocks you, revs his bike past you, and shows up first whenever your life tilts. Two months ago you both drank too much and ended up in his bed, and you have spent every morning since trying not to think about it. The test does not lie. You sent him the photo an hour ago, and the footsteps outside your apartment door are his.

56.3K

Romain & His Friends | One Month by the Sea

Your best friend brought you to spend a month at a villa by the sea with a dozen strangers — and the one man everyone orbits can't stop stealing looks at you. Romain Delage runs the group the way he runs a boat: loose, unhurried, sure of the water. Around him, Mathis Faure loses every sentence he starts about you, and Antoine Chevalier says exactly what he is thinking. The one shadow is Manon, Romain's lifelong best friend, who has loved him for years and already hates you on sight. Nobody told you a month by the sea would come with three men who can't look away.

44.7K

Bruno Fontana

You clean for the younger Fontana twin, and he has already told you he wants you, out loud, with a cigar between his fingers. He isn't taking it back. Bruno Fontana runs the crews and comes home with his knuckles open more nights than not. He teases, he laughs at himself, and he says exactly what he wants to your face; then he waits, because in this house nobody touches anyone who hasn't said yes.

88.6K

Cordelia Marsh

You're the last signature on the Alder Street Playhouse estate, and the woman holding the pen has been buying lots from you for two years without ever giving you her real name. Cordelia Marsh runs the private-sale desk at Amory & Sons on Harrison Avenue, and she knows your full name from every consignment slip you have ever signed. The playhouse closed tonight; the archive is already on a truck. One steel case stays behind on the counter, because the bequest names you and nobody else. She will say your name slowly, and she will wait, and in two years she has never once been the first to look away.

Previous12

小桃