In Miami's heat, love between Aspen Kartier and Summyah Marie was never simple-it was survival. Aspen, a tough girl from Chicago with a guarded heart, doesn't trust easily and loves even harder when she does. Summyah, sweet on the surface but deeply intense underneath, doesn't let go once she chooses someone... even when she should. What they have is messy, toxic, and on-and-off-built on past betrayal, jealousy, and timing that never seems right. New people step in, old wounds reopen, and every breakup somehow still leads them back to each other. Because no matter how much it hurts, they always choose each other again. A toxic hood love story about obsession, trust issues, and two girls who can't stay away from what breaks them.

hold me tight, let me go heal my heart, hurt my soul.

Summyah Marie had always been the party girl type. After moving across the country, she chose to make ends meet working as a dancer to support herself and her little brother back home. As a result, she found herself picking up a few bad habits. Sucked into club life and the allure of fast money, Summyah lost herself without realizing it. In the attention, the drugs, the money, the atmosphere - all of it. The club life became her world, and she'd believed that world was enough... until she stumbled into Aspen Kartier's tattoo shop on a random Friday night. __ Aspen Kartier had always been an artist. Ever since she could hold a pencil she'd been sketching. It was no surprise at all that she wound up tattooing for a living once she came to the States. And now with her own successful shop, Brutality Ink, and the freedom to do whatever she pleased, Aspen had it all. Until she met Summyah Marie - performing as Cookie on stage - the walking embodiment of temptation and sin. With her long curly black hair usually pulled into playful pigtails, lightskin Black and Haitian features that glowed under the club lights, and that full sleeve tattoo on display, Summyah was impossible to forget. Especially when she walked into Aspen's shop late one night, still glittering from her shift, wearing a tight blue bodycon dress and sky-high heels.

Two girls whose lives couldn't be more different... yet somehow collide in ways neither of them saw coming. Aspen Renée Kartier is the definition of hidden strength. On the outside, she's the quiet, intelligent girl who excels in every classroom she steps into maintaining a 4.5 GPA, earning straight A's, and carrying the kind of academic pressure most people would crumble under. But behind closed doors, Aspen's life tells a completely different story. Raised in a broken home with divorced parents, she's been forced to grow up faster than she should've. Her mother's drug addiction drained the family financially and emotionally, leaving Aspen's older brother to step into a role he was never prepared for. With college dreams slipping further out of reach due to money, Aspen finds herself quietly battling reality while maintaining the image of perfection. What no one knows is that Aspen's life extends far beyond school walls. She hides a painful home life, a secret that could ruin the image she's carefully built. She's also living a double life one tied to the streets, one tied to survival. Then there's Summyah Zuri Marie. Summyah lives a life Aspen can only imagine. Wealth, luxury, status, and attention follow her everywhere she goes. She has the cars, the lifestyle, and the name that opens doors but her academic life tells a different truth. With average grades sitting around a C-, she constantly falls short of her parents' expectations. Her parents are determined to push her toward success, even threatening to send her back to Los Angeles to live with her grandmother, Mrs. Tasha, if she can't improve. What starts as a simple academic arrangement quickly becomes something much deeper, more complicated, and far more dangerous than either of them expected. As their worlds begin to intertwine, secrets threaten to surface, emotions begin to blur boundaries, and the weight of who they are versus who they pretend to be becomes impossible to ignore.

Summyah and Aspen have hated each other for years. Back in middle school, what started as an innocent sleepover turned into something neither of them forgot-a soft, mutual kiss that actually meant something. But the next day, Summyah flipped the story, telling everyone that Aspen kissed her and calling her weird, labeling her in a way that stuck. Aspen was humiliated. And she never forgave her. (DISCONTINUED)

Aspen and Summyah come from two completely different worlds. Aspen was raised in a rough neighborhood where survival meant staying alert, moving smart, and never letting anyone see weakness. The streets shaped her. Loyalty, respect, and reputation were everything around her, and before she even realized it, she had been pulled into gang activity just trying to protect herself and the people around her. Aspen carries a tough exterior guarded, fearless, and used to handling problems on her own but underneath all of that is a girl who never really had the chance to slow down and just be a teenager. Summyah's life looks nothing like Aspen's. She grew up in a warm, supportive household where her family made sure she always felt safe, heard, and loved. She's thoughtful, patient, and emotionally aware, the kind of person who tries to understand people instead of judging them. Summyah believes in second chances and sees the good in others even when they don't see it in themselves. When the two meet, their differences are obvious at first. Aspen is guarded and skeptical, while Summyah is open and curious. But as time passes, they realize something unexpected: their personalities balance each other perfectly. Summyah brings calm to Aspen's chaos, helping her see life beyond the streets, while Aspen teaches Summyah how to be bold, confident, and unafraid to stand up for herself. What begins as an unlikely friendship slowly grows into something deeper. The more time they spend together, the more they realize the connection between them isn't just about understanding it's about the way they make each other feel seen. Somewhere between late-night conversations, shared laughter, and quiet moments of honesty, their bond begins to blur the line between friendship and something neither of them expected... feelings.

Summyah thought Aspen was reckless. Aspen thought Summyah was uptight. Summyah never knew that the girl she promised herself she'd never get involved with, would end up being the one person she can't stay away from. Jace might be the safe choice, but Aspen? She was everything Summyah craved.

A Summyah Marie and Aspen Kartier typical wattpad book because there's not enough "Life move fast but my baby keep it slow"

Fresh off a breakup, Summyah leaves California behind and ends up in Chicago with her best friend Lena, telling herself it's just a reset. No feelings. No attachments. Just space. Aspen wasn't missing anything, until Summyah showed up and changed the way her days went. Late nights turned into conversations that went on and on. What was supposed to be temporary began to feel dangerous.

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