"I take you, Draco Malfoy, for my lawful husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, until death do us part." Since the time we were children, being betrothed to the Malfoy heir was every pure-blood girls dream. They spun around him at ball's, spoke about him behind closed doors, and stared at him during classes. That is, every pure-blood girl, except for me. So naturally, I had to be the fan favorite of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy. I had to be the one who they saw fit for the boy I hated most of all: him. The Malfoy heir. And I was determined to do everything I could to stop a wedding from happening, to stop myself from being resigned to a life at his side. Until, of course, I began to fall for him too. - - - - - Fifth year, Hogwarts. Pure-blood Slytherin OC! There are TW at the beginnings of chapters that include any mature themes. Please consider your maturity when reading. *More specific info in the Author's Note*

Sienna Evans has spent two years perfecting the art of not caring what Draco Malfoy thinks. A system that works right up until the week her mother dies and everything she thought she knew about her own family falls apart with it. A cousin she never met. An aunt who never wanted her. And underneath all of it, a rivalry with the one boy who's spent two years trying to get under her skin, and is somehow the only one who notices when she's drowning. He's cruel in the way boys are when they've never been told to be anything else. She's guarded in the way people are when softness feels like something that gets taken from you. Between library arguments, dungeon proximity, and the slow, humiliating discovery that hating someone and needing them aren't always as far apart as they seem, something starts to grow. ✦ • ° • ✦ " What have you done to me Sienna?" "Hating you would have been so much easier."