sums4224
- Reads 1,143
- Votes 61
- Parts 10
Vivienne Carlisle was raised to inherit something.
An estate overlooking the Atlantic.
A last name that opens doors.
A legacy polished enough to reflect everyone's expectations but her own.
On paper, she is golden - Hartford old money, private schools, summers in Europe, a mother who once walked Princeton's halls and a family that assumes she will follow. She was trained to bend gracefully under pressure.
She never learned how.
Instead, she chose Yale.
Logan Huntzberger was raised to inherit everything.
A media empire.
A future already written.
A reputation that arrives in rooms before he does.
He was trained to charm, to lead, to never show doubt. He moves through Yale like it belongs to him - because it almost does.
Vivienne is the one variable he never mastered.
They have been orbiting each other since they were seventeen - Aspen at midnight, Monaco at sunrise, years of wordless confessions and perfectly timed silences. They never dated. They never defined it. They never had to.
Until now.
Sophomore year begins and alliances shift.
New girls enter the picture. Old wounds resurface. And the version of themselves they present to the world begins to crack under the weight of inheritance, grief, and the kind of love that refuses to be easy.
Because Vivienne knows something Logan doesn't:
Perfection died four years ago.
And she has no intention of resurrecting it.
Some people are born into power.
Others learn how to walk away from it.
And some, like Vivienne Carlisle, refuse to fold at all.
***
vivienne carlisle x logan huntzberger