Cold Blood

"W-What the hell are you doing?" Ava hissed, her voice wavering with the kind of disbelief that bordered on panic. Her heart thundered in her chest, breath short and shallow—not just because Zach had kissed her in front of an audience that now probably needed medical attention—but because the moment he pulled her into his room and slammed the door shut behind them, the air had changed.

It was too warm.

Too still.

Too... charged.

Her back instinctively pressed against the door as if distance could offer her control over this unraveling chaos. Her hands fumbled behind her, searching for the knob like a prisoner trying to find an escape route. But it was too late. Zach was already turning to face her.

And when he did—when those eyes met hers—her entire body stilled.

That face. That expression. That same sharp coldness that clung to him like frost. The twin she never meant to marry. The man she now couldn't stop thinking about.