RENEESE MIORI VILLAMOR has never been good at choosing the sensible thing. She spends recklessly, breaks rules effortlessly, and walks through the academy like consequences are nothing more than a distant rumor. She is everything polished, predictable, and perfect was never meant to be. Then there is EZRA ZAYYAN ZARAGOZA - the academy's golden boy. Brilliant, disciplined, admired, and always one step ahead of everyone, especially her. They were never supposed to want the same thing. So they compete. They argue. They push every button they know the other has, turning every encounter into another battle neither of them is willing to lose. Until somewhere between the rivalry and the silence after their arguments, they begin wanting something neither of them knows how to choose. Each stolen glance becomes a confession. Each moment together becomes something they have to hide. And every time they get closer, the distance between what they want and what they are allowed to have grows wider. Because loving someone is easy when you have nothing to lose. But what happens when choosing them means losing everything else? And when the time comes for Reneese and Ezra to make the choices that will decide where their lives go, one of them will have to let go of the other. Maybe that is the cruelest part of their story - not that they couldn't love each other, but that they couldn't keep each other. And perhaps, years from now, all that will remain is the question neither of them will ever be able to escape: Was I ever yours to keep, or was I always just what you couldn't keep of me?