Golden Hour ✔

Rowan Hart is perfectly content being the campus grump: quiet, focused, emotionally unavailable, and allergic to most forms of social interaction.
As the brooding captain of the university soccer team, he's used to people assuming he's intimidating or uninterested... which is fine. He prefers it that way.

Theo Vale, unfortunately, does not seem to get the hint.
Theo is all sunshine: bright smiles, loud laughter, relentless optimism, and a talent for turning even the coldest rooms warm. As a design major with golden-retriever energy, Theo has a way of burrowing under people's skin... in Rowan's case, against his will.

When school construction and a mandatory project force them together, annoyance turns into banter, banter into tension, and tension into something Rowan definitely shouldn't want.

One golden hour is all it takes to blur the line between enemies and something dangerously close to love.

Content Notes: moderate angst, swearing, queer romance, college setting
Tropes: enemies to lovers || grumpy x golden retriever || mlm || college romance || slowburn || forced proximity

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