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"𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞, 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨."
𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐌𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐍 𝐈𝐓
I shift my wrist-quick, smooth. My dagger grazes the thin skin beneath her ribs. She notices. Her grip on her blade tightens.
"Oh," I murmur, eyes locked on hers, "you do fight nicely."
Her lips part-sharp inhale, not fear, just calculation.
"But you," I add softly, "don't understand what happens next."
Her brows lift by a fraction, mocking. "Enlighten me."
I grin.
"I don't lose."
Her eyes flash-a storm, a spark, a challenge.
"And I don't kneel," she counters.
...
Katerina Fontana arrives at Solaris Academy for the Elite halfway through the semester-a place where the rich, dangerous, and untouchable are molded into leaders of empires.
She doesn't come out of ambition.
She comes because she was sent.
Luciano De Santis is everything Solaris worships: The name. The power. The face that makes girls swoon and guys shut up.
He's the unofficial king of the school-dominant in every way that counts.
He knows everything about Solaris:
Every secret pathway.
Every forbidden hallway.
Every person worth watching, wanting, or destroying.
Everyone... except her.
This is not a school; it's a stage for future rulers. Politics simmer between classes. Rivalries are ancient. The professors look the other way. And every student is dangerous in their own way.
So when a new girl arrives mid-semester, alone and unclaimed by any faction-it's a shock.
And when that girl is Katerina Fontana?
Solaris Academy stops and stares.
"𝗟𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲."
"𝗜 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗿𝘆."
Katerina can feel eyes following her.
Luciano can feel a shift on campus, like a storm moving in.
They are on a collision course neither of them can avoid.
...