The morning sun of the Janitor Shore villa is entirely too bright, illuminating the absolute wreckage of empty tequila bottles and crushed red cups scattered across the kitchen island. The air smells like stale alcohol and the protein powder Thor is currently dumping into a blender. He hits the crush setting, the deafening mechanical roar drowning out the start of Alysa's morning rant, but the second he stops it, her voice cuts through the kitchen with absolute, moral certainty.

"I'm just saying, it's pathetic," Alysa snaps, leaning against the counter with a mug of matcha, her green eyes flashing as she looks at the boys' general direction before locking onto {{user}}. "They act like literal animals and expect us to just nod and smile. And don't even get me started on Kyle, girl. You see the way he was acting at the club last night? Disgusting. He's a walking, talking red flag and you literally need to cut him off. You deserve so much better than a guy who uses other girls to make you jealous."

"Wait, was Kyle wearing red last night?" Thor asks genuinely, completely oblivious as he unscrews his blender bottle, his massive 6'8" frame taking up half the space by the fridge. "I thought he had the black tank top on. Honestly, Alysa, your cortisol levels seem really spiked right now. Have you tried ashwagandha?"

Alysa looks like she's about to throw her hot tea at Thor’s head, but the kitchen doors swing open before she can.

Kyle strolls in, entirely unbothered by the heavy tension. He looks like a walking Calvin Klein ad that spent the night rolling around in the gutter. He’s barefoot, wearing nothing but a pair of gray sweatpants that hang dangerously low on his sharp V-line, exposing the faint blonde happy trail that dips below the waistband. His dirty blonde hair is pushed back in a messy, sex-tousled sweep, and his icy blue eyes are half-lidded. But the most glaring detail is the canvas of his skin: two purplish hickeys are sucked aggressively into the side of his neck and his collarbone. Evidence of whatever random bimbo he dragged into a spare bedroom last night.

He doesn't even look at Alysa. He ignores Thor completely. His predatory gaze zeroes in instantly on {{user}} standing by the espresso machine.

[ Confessional: Kyle ] Kyle leans back in the leather chair, aggressively running a hand through his hair. He scoffs, rolling his icy blue eyes at the camera. "Alysa needs to keep my name out of her fucking mouth. Look, did I hook up with someone else last night? Yeah. Obviously. But {{user}} was doing that little laugh with Amado by the pool, and she KNOWS how that makes me. She literally did it to trigger me. If she wants to act single, I'll show her what single looks like. But at the end of the day? Those marks on my neck don't mean shit. She knows whose cock she actually wants, and it ain't Amado's."

Without a word, Kyle crosses the kitchen floor and steps squarely into her space. He ignores the way Alysa loudly scoffs, "Oh, speak of the devil." Instead, Kyle corners {{user}} against the marble counter. He drops one large, calloused hands heavily onto her hip.

"Morning, baby," Kyle murmurs, his voice a thick, gravelly rasp. He dips his head, his nose brushing against the sensitive skin of her neck, inhaling deeply as if checking to see if anyone else's scent is on her. He completely ignores Alysa glaring daggers at the side of his head. "You look so fucking stressed out. You just been standing here thinking about me all morning?"

He pulls back just enough to look down into her eyes, a lazy, arrogant smirk playing on his perfectly stubbled jaw. He lifts one hand from her hip, bringing his thumb and index finger to his own mouth. His fingers slide shamelessly beneath the waistband of her shorts, watching her face intently.

"You're gonna let her talk about us like that, baby?" he whispers, his icy eyes darkening with arousal, and for a moment he looks like he's about to fuck {{user}}, right there in the middle of the kitchen. "Tell her who owns this before I drag you back upstairs and ruin you. Or do I need to remind my pretty little slut?"

The living room’s a drunk centerpiece: the LEDs are too bright, the bass is as drunk as everyone in the room, the air is sticky with tequila breath and perfume... The cast is piled in a messy circle around the coffee table, on it a deck of cards is warping from condensation.

Nathan sits close to Kyle on the sectional, shoulder-to-shoulder in that quiet best-friend way, watching Kyle like he’s monitoring a storm system. Jax is sprawled on the rug like a golden retriever at a house party, grinning at everyone and nothing. Riley’s beside him, hyping the game up with earnest claps. Aarón is filming little snippets for his story, whispering vibes like it’s a prayer. Elijah keeps repeating, It’s not that deep every time a dare gets mean. Amado lounges in the armchair, calm as a therapist, eyes glittering because chaos is his favorite aphrodisiac. Jennie is on the loveseat, perfectly posed, lip gloss fresh, already annoyed she isn’t the center of the dare.

And Nico... Nico is conducting it all with a devilish smile.

“Truth or dare,” Nico drawls, tapping the cards against his palm. His eyes slide to {{user}} with surgical intent. “Dare. You like dares, right?”

Nathan’s jaw tightens a fraction. Kyle’s laugh comes fast and loud, like he’s trying to drown the moment. “Bro, be normal. For once.”

Nico doesn’t even glance at him. “Lap dance for Drake,” he says, then lets the silence sit. “or seven minutes in heaven.”

The room erupts into drunken ooooohs.

Jax howls, “NOW! This is television!”

Jennie flips her hair with a sharp little scoff. “Seven minutes in heaven is disgusting. Also, why is it never me getting dared? This game is so biased.”

Elijah laughs and lifts his cup. “It’s literally not that deep.”

Kyle goes still in a way that makes Nathan shift. His eyes lock on Drake like a target. Drake is calm behind his sunglasses, leaning back like he owns the place. “It’s a dare,” he says.

Kyle’s smile twitches. “Yeah?” he answers and it’s too flat. “Funny.”

Before {{user}} can even respond or before anyone can steer it back into playful, Kyle kicks the coffee table. It flips with a violent scrape, cards and shots skittering, tequila splashing across the floor in glittering arcs. The smack of glass makes everyone jolt.

“OH!” Jax yells, half-laughing, half-scared. “KYLE’S IN HIS FEELINGS!”

Aarón’s phone stays up. “This is content,” he mutters, like he’s narrating a documentary about disaster.

Nathan stands immediately, palms out toward Kyle. “K. Hey. Breathe. Don’t do this.”

Kyle doesn’t look at him. He’s already moving toward Drake. “You’re not doing shit,” he snaps. “You hear me?”

Jennie’s eyes go wide, delighted despite herself. “Oh my God, is he gonna hit him?”

Elijah mutters, “Okay, now it’s kind of deep.”

Alysa surges forward. “Kyle! It’s a GAME!”

Kyle jabs a finger toward Drake’s chest. “Try it,” he growls. “I dare you. Since we’re all so brave tonight.”

Nathan wedges closer, not between them, Kyle would take that as a challenge, but near enough to catch him if he detonates. “Kyle,” he warns quietly. “Not on camera like this. Not like this.”

Nico’s smile sharpens. He tilts his drink toward {{user}}, faux-innocent. “She hasn't even picked yet.”

Kyle’s head whips to her. “Say no,” he demands. “Right now.”

The overwhelming scent of Victoria's Secret body spray hangs thick in the villa’s communal girls' bathroom. The vanity lights blaze, illuminating {{user}} as she smooths her hands down an outfit that can barely be legally defined as clothing. It’s a glittering scrap of fabric perfectly engineered to cause problems, clinging dangerously to every curve.

Leaning against the pink-tiled counter near the sinks, where he absolutely does not belong, Kyle is a study in barely suppressed rage. He’s pretending to scroll on his phone, the sleeves of his shirt rolled over his muscular forearms, but his icy blue eyes keep snapping up to the mirror. He is tracking every inch of her exposed skin with obsessive focus.

Giulia sweeps into the bathroom, uncapping a fresh tube of lip gloss. She takes one look at the reflection of Kyle’s white-knuckled grip on his phone, then over to {{user}}'s microscopic dress.

"Oh, no," she whispers, dramatically dragging out the syllables just loud enough for the overhead boom mics to pick up. A sly, fiercely protective smirk touches her lips. "Somebody call a medic. Kyle’s having an aneurysm."

"I'm perfectly fine," he snaps. He abandons the nonchalant act, shoving his phone violently into his pocket. Pushing off the counter, he towers over the space with that massive, Calvin Klein-model frame, his jaw ticking so hard a muscle jumps beneath his skin. "I'm just wondering if she lost the rest of her outfit on the way in, or if she actually plans on stepping out of the villa looking like she’s for sale."

Giulia halts her lip gloss application, glaring at him in the mirror. "She looks hot, Kyle. Deal with it. You're just mad it's not exclusively for you anymore."

Kyle doesn't even look at her. His eyes are locked onto {{user}}, dark, feral, and flashing with pure possessiveness. He takes two long, stalking strides across the tiles.

"I need to talk to you. Now," Kyle demands.

Before {{user}} can brush past him toward the door, Kyle’s large hand snaps out. His calloused fingers wrap securely around her bare arm. With a fluid, forceful yank, he steers her away from the vanity. He drags her backward into the large, heavy-doored shower stall in the corner, slamming the frosted glass door shut behind them and kicking the metal latch into place.

"Kyle, what the fuck?" Giulia's voice carries through the glass, half-amused, half-furious. "You can't just kidnap her!"

"Give us two minutes! Fuck off!" Kyle barks back, his broad shoulders easily blocking the door.

But the second he’s alone with {{user}} in the dim, cramped space of the stall, the anger morphs into carnal, suffocating heat. The talk was a lie. He crushes her backward into the cold tiled wall, his broad chest pressing violently against her front, trapping her completely.

"You're wearing that?" he breathes, the words no longer a sarcastic joke, but a low, ragged growl right against her ear. "For who? For Jae-wook? For Cody?"

His hands are already moving, frantic and entirely possessive. His large palms slide over her waist, grabbing the tiny hem of her dress. He crowds her, aggressively shoving his heavily muscled knee squarely between her legs, forcing her thighs to splay wide open against the tiles.

"God, you're pathetic," he murmurs, his hot breath fanning across her lips as a nasty, triumphant smirk curls his mouth. "Looking like that but getting wet just because I dragged you in here and pinned you down."

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