['Bad Blood' Series Book #2] 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞. 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳, 𝘢 𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳. Now he's a name I was warned never to speak. 𝐀𝐧𝐝, 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐬𝐬-a ruthless kingmaker my father would 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, and he has no idea who I really am. I came to 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙮 the secret that would ruin my family, but the lines blur with every look he gives me-a possessive fire that has nothing to do with my resume. 𝘏𝘦'𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺'𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣. 𝐇𝐈𝐌 She's a liar. A beautiful, infuriating ghost from a past a bullet stole from me. My mind doesn't know her, but my body remembers everything. She's a weapon, and she's been pointed directly at my head. She thinks she's playing me, but I see the 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 in her eyes. She came here to 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝘁 for secrets. She has no idea she's the one being 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐨.

"You don't have to tell me everything, just let me be the one who's there for you." She lied to fit in. He's breaking under pressure. But when their worlds collide, truth is the only thing that can save them. Maliyah Thompson is used to being invisible. At Milton Prep a private school on the Upper East Side, she wears knockoff designer bags and tells fake stories. No one knows she takes the train back to Brooklyn. No one knows her mom works two shifts to keep her enrolled. And no one knows the price she's paying to stay. Liam Weber isn't invisible. He's the new star athlete, handpicked from Europe to lead the team to a champion win. But under the surface? He's unraveling. The pressure, the secrets, the father who only sees him as a ticket to the NBA. When Liam accidentally slams a door into Maliyah's face, neither of them expects that moment to change everything. But it does.

"You keep looking at me like you don't want me, Adeline," Will murmurs, his lips brushing against my jaw while hand slides higher on my bare thigh, slow and deliberate. "But your body says otherwise." My breath gets caught in my throat and my brain screams to say something, anything-but my lips won't move. "I..." I begin to say, but the words die before they even leave my lips the second his mouth touches my neck. ⊹₊⟡⋆ Adeline Serrano has a reputation to protect. Straight A's, flawless record, and the badge of honor that comes with being the principal's daughter. At Willow Creek Preparatory she's everything a good girl should be: polished, respected, and untouchable. But one drunken summer night changed everything. One kiss-hot, messy, absolutely forbidden-with the last person she should've been caught dead with. Will Carter. They don't call him the prince of chaos for nothing. The mayor's rebellious son. All smirks, bruised knuckles, and bad decision. Practically a walking scandal. Recently suspended for smoking with someone's daughter in the boys' bathroom. Now he's back- with a bruised jaw, a vendetta, and nothing to lose. So when Will decides to turn the school's poster girl into his newest distraction, Adeline's carefully built world begins to unravel. Secrets stir, bets are made, lessons are taught, truths unravel, and lines blur between hate and desire. She's pretending it never happened, he's planning to make sure she never forgets. Because some girls break rules. And the best ones? They shatter them.

This is for us who just want to survive in a world that's failed us. Briar Hall wasn't supposed to notice me. But now there's a queen bee screaming my name, a boy with ocean-blue eyes threatening revenge for me, and secrets I'm not ready to share. I was aiming for invisible. Turns out I'm terrible at it. Watch me survive. Or not.