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Sixteen-year-old Riley Kent has never needed anyone. Not really. She learned early that people leave, promises break, and the only thing you can trust is yourself. So she built a life that looks untouchable-designer clothes, perfect makeup, loud parties, reckless nights, and a reputation that makes adults shake their heads and friends laugh a little too loudly. She's fun. She's fearless. She's completely unbothered. At least, that's what she wants everyone to believe.
Then Clark Kent shows up.
Quiet. Awkward. Infuriatingly kind. A journalist from Metropolis who looks like he belongs in a completely different world-one where people make breakfast, ask how your day was, and actually wait up when you don't come home. He's also her father. The one she never knew existed. The one who missed sixteen years of her life and suddenly wants to be part of it like it's that simple.
Riley doesn't want him. She doesn't trust him. And she definitely doesn't need him trying to fix a life she already knows how to survive. But Clark isn't like anyone she's ever met. He doesn't yell. He doesn't leave. And no matter how hard she pushes, he just... stays.
Living under the same roof turns into a war of sarcasm, silence, and small moments neither of them knows how to handle. Because Riley might be used to people walking away-but Clark Kent has never once believed in giving up on someone. And for the first time in her life, she might have met someone who refuses to let her go.
Even if she makes it very, very difficult.