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TETHERED TO THE HEIR: THE BEGINNING
(This is a series, next update on 29 May)
"I didn't ask for your permission to want you, Alex."
Before the midnight FaceTime calls, the suffocating silence, and the broken promises, there was a girl who dared to stand in the way of a storm.
At Harvard, Juliet Hill is a brilliant, invisible prodigy-a freshman working three jobs just to keep her head above water. She's used to the pressure of the elite, but she's never encountered a weapon like Alex Evans. He is the feared senior heir to a dark family legacy built on blood and power, a man who sets his own morality on campus.
They were never supposed to collide.
But when Juliet publicly dismantles Alex's cold philosophy in a crowded lecture hall, she doesn't just challenge his logic-she challenges the man. Instead of snapping, the Lion is intrigued.
From late-night study sessions on her dorm room floor to high-speed adrenaline rushes on a private racetrack, Alex becomes a constant shadow in her world. He is a predator learning to be a protector, wearing her black hair tie on his tattooed wrist like a sacred vow.
Discover how a simple piece of string became an unbreakable bond. This is the origin of the tether-where the slow burn began, and where two separate worlds first started to blur.