aftermidnightt_ruely
"My father sent me to this God-forsaken seaside hell to 'cleanse my soul,' but he forgot one thing: I was already born to burn."
Welcome to Italy. Welcome to a boarding school where the bells ring too loud and the prayers feel like a chokehold. My name is Matteo De'Medici, and according to my noble, homophobic family, I am the ultimate sin.
I was supposed to keep my head down, serve my time, and ignore the suffocating rules of this place. But then I saw him. Aksel Solberg. He's the school's golden boy. The one who never breaks a rule, never misses a prayer, and looks at someone like me with enough ice in his eyes to freeze the Mediterranean. He's everything I hate. He's the silence to my noise, the cross to my chaos.
They think this summer will fix us. They think these walls can hold the "Exiled." But they have no idea what happens when you push a group of sinners too far in a place built for saints.
The prayers are ending. The real story is just beginning