addicted /əˈdɪktɪd/ physically and mentally dependent on a particular substance. ⸻ "You're addicted to me, aren't you?" he smirks. "What's wrong with that?" I smile back. "We're all addicted to things that could ruin us." ⸻ Enemies. Ex-childhood friends. Fake dating. Secret identities. Forbidden romance. Chase Russo lost his mother. Valentine Damitri lost her home. And when he needed her most, she disappeared without a trace. Years later, they're nothing but enemies passing in the same school hallways. He believes she abandoned him. She believes he's just an asshole. But Valentine isn't who she used to be. Behind the mask of a student, she is one of the world's most lethal assassins, every mission pulling her deeper into a web of blood, secrets, and the one mystery she has never stopped chasing: what happened to her mother. And Chase isn't the boy she left behind. He has built his own secret life as an undercover agent, one that will collide with hers in ways neither of them can control. When they're forced into a fake relationship, their fragile truce threatens to ignite into something neither of them can deny. But when Valentine discovers the next name on her kill list, the truth shatters everything. Nicolo Russo. Chase's father. The man she has been sent to kill. But Valentine isn't the only one with orders. Because while she's been trained to dismantle his empire, Chase has been trained to eliminate the deadliest assassin alive. Her.

Allie Sampson (Allie-Cat when she gets around) has lived a very harsh life. Her mother is dead, her father is abusive and one cruel alcoholic, and she has to retort to becoming a prostitute to support her younger brother, Caleb. Over the summer, she recieves a returning customer, Jake Hammerson. When the two head back to school after the summer, they realize they cant be passionately in love at school. It's hard for them, and Jake doesnt know if he can handle knowing that his girlfriend sleeps around for money. What she does know, is that he's filthy rich. What she doesnt know is her ever running into him was only a dare...

Ashley Martin has been through more grief than a person experiences in their entire life and carries baggage that no kid should ever entail. Tyler Miller is the school's scandalous bad boy who acts on impulse, blinded rage and will single-handedly destroy anybody who stands in his way. Then all of a sudden, they're thrown together and despite their destructive past, they're forced to overcome their differences. It's time for Ashley to stop running away from his death glares, blank stares and that spine-chilling scowl that reminds her just how little he cares. Driven by a whirlwind of secrets, a class assignment and midnight walks into the past, things should start working out. But then fate kicks in; hard-hitting and soul-crushing. It's a fight-or-flight situation, a reincarnation of her past, a chance for him to right the wrongs he did by her. A second chance is like giving someone an extra bullet for their gun after they missed you the first time round. So here's Tyler's gun. Here's Ashley's heart. And here's to their second chance, however hopeless it may seem.