β Scribed by C.L. Cruz
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Valya:
My mother taught me from a young age that hate was a cowardly feeling.
Itβs so much harder to love.
And thereβs nothing harder than loving Andrej Novak, the brutal king of Oakwood City.
We grew up in the same householdβhim with a silver spoon, me with a dust rag.
Heβs always been brilliant, beautiful, and tortured, and he hates that I see the good in him when he canβt see it for himself.
Maybe thatβs why heβs always pushed me away.
When we come back into each otherβs lives after years apart, though, itβs finally time for me to push back.
Andrej:
To an Oakwood Boy, image is everything.
Valya Strakova is poor, nerdy, and knows too much about me.
Thatβs why sheβs completely off-limits.
But when she reappears in my life after my fatherβs death, old wounds open, and old feelings are rekindled.
We have every reason to hate each other, but we canβt seem to stay away from each other.
When she finally stands up for herself, am I ready to admit that the reason Iβve loathed her all these years is because I secretly love her?
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