Childhood best friends to enemies to lovers.
Alina wants nothing to do with the rebellious bad boy, Liam Somner.
Which is difficult, because he goes to her school. And lives on her street. And keeps showing up at her apartment, and sitting in her kitchen, smearing way too much cream cheese on his bagel and... refusing to wear a shirt.
Alina and Liam have history. Too much of it, and it's messy and painful, and should be buried deep and forgotten. But Liam feels like there's unfinished business between them.
Unfinished business, like finding the burial place of Liam's great grandfather. And saving Oscar, Alina's brother, from his depression. And that promise that Alina and Liam made at midnight, with legs dangling over the East River, to never leave the other behind.
Liam and Alina's past is a tangled web of life debts, family secrets, betrayals, and forgotten promises.
So even though she swears she hates him, when Alina realises Liam is awake late, she finds unexpected company in her enemy.
Two insomniacs, wide awake in the city that never sleeps.
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Nataly, the innocent looking girl with a sad past, needs to stop grieving and start living again after losing her twin sister. But it's hard to do something like that when all your life you had to share every single experience with someone else. She's a good girl, the kind of girl who doesn't want to get in a fight, doesn't want to draw attention, doesn't fight back even when she's hurt.
Liam, the new bad boy in school with quite a temper and some killer punches, just moves in and already has plenty of girls to date. Except he doesn't date. He only has girls that understand and accept that all they will ever have is a one time thing, they will scratch an itch and then move on with their lives.
But what happens when handsome Liam meets Nataly who catches his eye? He doesn't do relationships, she never had one, but even so since the first day they met, they can't keep away from each other.
People say a boy and a girl can't be friends, because always one of them has feelings for the other. But no one ever says what happens if both of them want more than just friendship, but one wants love, the other just sex. One of them will definitely suffer, because you can't simply change what you truly desire... or can you?
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*Not a friends with benefits story 😉
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