Lost to her own thoughts, Yerin hadn't noticed how the room had come to a silent stand-still, devoid of even shallow breathing. It wasn't until it felt like there were tiny ants crawling all over her skin that she looked up from staring blankly at a chipped tile that she clocked onto all the eyes now directed towards her. She felt her stomach tense. Did they know something? Did Kyungjun say something about her warning to Hyunho? As the questions felt like a deafening buzz in her ears, Yerin felt someone tap her shoulder. Looking sideways at Hyunho, she removed an earbud, raising an eyebrow as he leaned down to whisper, "Maybe listening to Another one bites the dust isn't the greatest choice right now, Yeri." --- Kang Yerin was no good at games. They frustrated her, and to put it frank, she was a sore loser when it came to strategy based games, so after being thrown into the deep end in a real life game of Mafia where she is... well, mafia, she has to sell her morals to the devil just to make it through each night alive.

A bullied girl meets the popular new student. ***** "Still saying that you're perfectly okay?" Max whispers. I'm surprised to hear that his voice is shaking. "I'm going to find who did this to you." ***** One time, I was the most popular girl in school. All the students in Royal Heights, the school of the richest, knew me as the pretty Luna Klein, daughter of a famous superstar and a well-known billionaire. But the next thing I know, I'm an outcast. Just because of a complicated thing called love, everything turns 180 degrees. Now, I'm the girl that everyone hates. I've lost all my friends. I've lost my best friend. And I've lost the guy that I adore. All I can do now is to ignore the bullies and to survive each day quietly, hoping that I don't attract too much attention like before. Everyone in my school starts to call me loony Luna. Or lunatic, their favorite nickname. Then he suddenly arrives. Max Cooper, the new student who just got here from Australia. Insanely good-looking and smart, topped with his impressive family background, Max easily becomes everybody's favorite, especially the girls'. Disastrously, of all the other things he can pick, Max sets his eyes on the most forbidden and despised thing in Royal Heights. Me. Even though the whole school hates that idea. But pushing Max away is like trying to tame a wild lion that has just been released from its cage. Max is unstoppable. My mother once said that if a guy is really into you, he will pursue you no matter what. I think I know now how it feels. I just don't know how to handle my heart. Because every time his piercing eyes land on me, I feel like my heart is going to burst out of my chest. ***** THE KLEINS SERIES BOOK #2 © 2021 Anya Jayvyn. All Rights Reserved.