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At one of New York's most prestigious universities, Matilda Ellington is known as the girl no one dares to approach. Beautiful, intelligent, and effortlessly captivating, she has a reputation for being cold, blunt, and brutally sarcastic. To most people, she's intimidating. To Matilda, keeping everyone at arm's length is simply easier.
Her college life revolves around lectures during the day and wild parties after dark. Loud music, flashing lights, and endless nights are the only escape she allows herself. Love, relationships, and emotional attachments have never been part of her plans.
Everything changes when Weston Kyler enters her life.
Unlike every other guy who quickly gives up after being met with Matilda's icy stare or sharp remarks, Weston refuses to walk away.
Their worlds collide through Georgia, Matilda's best friend, and Marvyn, Georgia's boyfriend-who also happens to be Weston's closest friend. What begins as a few accidental meetings soon turns into something impossible to ignore.
Matilda believes Weston is just another boy chasing a challenge. Weston, however, sees the lonely girl hidden beneath her walls. Every sarcastic comment, every rejection, and every attempt to push him away only strengthens his determination to prove that she's worth fighting for.
But behind Matilda's cold exterior lies a painful past she's never shared with anyone. Opening her heart means risking the one thing she's spent years protecting herself from-being hurt.
As college parties become unforgettable memories, friendships grow stronger, and feelings become impossible to deny, Matilda must decide whether to keep hiding behind the walls she's built... or finally give a chance to the one person who has never stopped knocking on the door of her heart.
Because sometimes, the hardest person to love is the one who has forgotten what it feels like to be loved-and sometimes, all it takes is someone who refuses to give up.