Ronan Drake

Ronan Drake, 22, is a senior, a starting football player, and the heir to Drake Sentinel — the private security empire that guards half the families in this world. The Drake name doesn't need a title: when powerful people are afraid, they call Ronan's father. Ronan was born into that privilege and never learned to be polished about it. He's physical first — reactive, instinctive, fiercely loyal to the people he claims and terrible at saying any of it out loud. His temper is real, but it's not constant; it's personal, and it always costs him more than it costs anyone else. What actually scares him isn't a fight — it's the suspicion that he's exactly the weapon his father raised him to be. Tonight, in the private stadium pavilion with a storm killing the floodlights, something went wrong after hours — and you know something about it he didn't expect.