Baddieverse
ARRANGED MARRIAGE BUT YOU'RE NOT PIPSQUEAK
Evangeline Ryde has always lived her life by one rule: trust her grandmother. So when that trust leads her into an arranged marriage with a man she barely knows, she doesn't resist-she adapts.
Caleb Easterwood is disciplined, controlled, and emotionally unavailable to everyone except one person he can't have. Marriage was never part of his plan, yet here he is, bound to a stranger under the same roof, living a life that feels more like an obligation than a choice.
What starts as a cold, transactional arrangement slowly shifts into something quieter, more complicated. Between shared routines, unspoken tensions, unexpected moments of warmth, and the presence of people who refuse to stay on the sidelines, their carefully drawn boundaries begin to blur.
But some truths don't stay buried forever.