🏆 1st Rank :- Slow Burn Billionaire Romance (New Chapter Everyday ✅) Noemi Petrova knows what it means to survive. Survival is waking up every morning with ghosts clawing at your memories. It is learning how to smile while carrying wounds nobody can see. It is making impossible choices when life leaves you with none. When desperation pushes her into an arrangement she never imagined accepting, Noemi finds herself standing in the path of Alvin Hertrich-a billionaire whose name commands respect, fear, and curiosity in equal measure. Alvin has spent years building walls around himself. After betrayal shattered everything he once believed in, he trusts no one, needs no one, and has no intention of letting anyone close enough to matter. The last thing he wants is a stranger living under his roof. Especially one who reminds him of everything he despises. What begins as a temporary arrangement soon becomes a dangerous game of lies, appearances, and carefully guarded secrets. While the world sees the perfect couple, the truth behind closed doors is far more complicated. Because some wounds refuse to stay buried. Some nightmares never truly end. And sometimes the people who are least capable of saving each other become the only ones willing to try. In a world where trust is the most elegant illusion ever created, two broken souls must decide whether the greatest risk is opening their hearts... or keeping them closed forever. __________________ The Story Contains --- ✔ Billionaire Romance ✔ Slow Burn ✔ Strangers to Lovers ✔ Emotional / Heartbreak/ Angst ✔ Haters to Lovers ✔ Mature Themes (Triggers - Sexual Abuse, Adult Content, etc) __________________

***Please note that this book has been taken down because it's been published, and you can see only the sample chapters of the published version. You can find the links to both ebook and paperback in my profile bio. ***This book is a spin-off. It can be read as a standalone, but it is recommended to read Bullied (Bullied #1), Pained (Bullied #2), Damaged (Bullied #3), and Trapped (Bullied #4) before reading this book to get a better understanding of the story and characters. ------- Three years ago, I became a shell of the girl I'd once been, left to pick up the pieces of my soul. I'd decided I wasn't going to let anyone walk all over me or bring me down, and I was surviving just fine. But then I met him. Masen Brown. I call him Barbie, though. Or Pudding Face. Or Walking STD. The list of insults goes on and on, I hate him that much. He's rotten to the core, a bully, a womanizer, and the cockiest guy I've ever met. I'm going to teach him his place. One way or another. He doesn't give in without a fight. He strikes back each time, though I'm not one to give up or be intimidated. He's going to see he's finally met his match in me. So, either he'll learn his lesson, or I'm going to make him learn it.

"Never call a girl a bitch," I glared into his eyes as he opened them, piercing into me, the bright blue drink I had just poured over him still dripping from his dark hair. "Or she just might act like one." I gave him one last sarcastic smile before pushing by him and walking away, practically strutting. Well, this year will be fun... • • • • Crystal Summers; a self-proclaimed expert in all things sarcastic and the human embodiment of destructive decisions. Trying to get away from her troubled past, she moves with her mom to California to start a new life, and potentially not screw this one up. There, she quickly meets Scarlett and Savanah, her new-found partners in crime, and her life finally begins to feel normal again for the first time in years. But she just so happens to also collide with the school's sexy, notorious jackass, Ashton Monroe.. and his pack of asswipes. She loathes him, and the feeling is mutual. But as the poets say, the line separating love and hate is a very thin one. And often times, when two people hate each other, it can grow into much more. Hopeless devotion, if you will... • • • • !!!TRIGGER WARNING!!! • slight mention(s) of suicidal concepts • substance abuse, addiction, anxiety, PTSD • sexual assault, domestic abuse • strong language and mature scenes • • • •