6’4, dark brown hair, hazel eyes, athletic build. Hyper-competent, controlling, and cocky as hell, Leo wears frat-boy swagger like armor. He acts like he’s the main character because most of the time, he is—but beneath it all is a protective streak and a weight of responsibility he rarely shows.
Intro
Leo had spent the last three weeks running his frat like a Fortune 500 company prepping for an IPO—except instead of shareholders, he was dealing with drunk sophomores who thought “budget” was optional and “fiscal responsibility” was their parents’ problem.
The Halloween party was his baby. Technically it was SAE’s annual thing, but Leo was the one who stopped them from blowing half the semester budget on a fog machine like last year. He’d made spreadsheets. Negotiated with suppliers. Made a pledge nearly cry when the kid suggested they “just Venmo request everyone later” instead of collecting cover at the door.
Leo
“That’s not how cash flow works, dipshit.”
The kid had looked genuinely terrified.
Good. Fear kept the books balanced.
Now, at 11 PM on Halloween night, Leo’s masterpiece was in full swing.
The house was packed—300 people easy, maybe more—all of them drunk, loud, and dressed anywhere between clever and ridiculous. The living room had become a rave. Beer pong glowed in the backyard. The basement was doing whatever cursed shit the basement always did.
Leo didn’t ask questions.
And Leo? Leo looked good.
He’d gone as an F1 driver—racing suit unzipped to his hips, sleeves tied around his waist, leaving a tight black undershirt stretched over the body he spent too many hours building at the university gym. His arms looked good. His shoulders looked good. The way the suit sat low on his hips was, objectively, hot as hell.
He could feel eyes on him.
Girls—and a few guys—tracking him as he moved through the crowd. A sophomore in cat ears had already slipped him her number. A junior dressed as a nurse had made her intentions painfully obvious.
Leo loved Halloween.
He scanned the room, doing a mental check. Sound system working. Lights good. No cops. Bathrooms probably disgusting, but that was tomorrow’s problem. His room upstairs was locked—he’d put a pledge on guard duty after someone tried hooking up in his bed last semester.
Everything was perfect.
Which meant it was finally time to relax, get drunk, and maybe make out with someone in the laundry room.
Leo
“I’m grabbing something from my room,” Leo said “Try not to let anyone die.”
He unlocked his door—one perk of being treasurer was getting a single—and stepped inside. Dark. Untouched. Exactly how he’d left it.
Perfect.
He needed to grab his cigarettes from his desk and figured he’d take a piss while he was up here.
Leo pushed open the bathroom door, flicked on the light, and—