"He looked like an angel. Not like those people who call their lovers angel because they wanna be sweet, but in a way where if I met God today, Ryder, holy and good, would be standing right there. By God's right-hand side, obliged to give me a tender kiss. It's quite funny though, Ryder can never be holy."
Aiko, the second child, has sealed the most important deal of her life.
To be the next heir of the Rockefeller empire, Aiko has to complete the ten difficult tasks her brother, the supposed-heir, wrote on a leather-bound notebook and return it to him with proof before her graduation. Including a task of making a certain rich boy fall deeply in love with her.
In Venisde Academy, she was a girl with a bleeding crevice tucked in her mind to which all hope for some sort of blithe burned to ice. But she could thank it, she would've been much more timid, if not for Zachary Vildan, until the boy left without a word one morning. Unmistakably, wordlessly, severing all ties with the girl.
Every single thing was checked off on her list, yet for the past 2 years, she's been stuck on the tenth.
10) Make Ryder Peterson fall for you.
It was the most difficult one of all, and approaching her senior year, she has lost all hope of Ryder ever falling for her.
Just as she was about to give up on an empire that she once dreamed she would have in her hands, one night of chaos filled with mafias, blades, and four of the most powerful rich boys of Venisde Academy promising a contract with her would make her lost dreams reappear and tumble back onto her fast as she could ever imagine it to be.
[If you like angst, and the joy and rebellion of shipping the protagonist with other main characters, then this book is meant for you.]
tags: dark academia, rich boys, mafia, billionaires, bad boy, highschool, teen, elite, private school, friendship contracts, deals, heartbreak, jealousy, yearning, diversity
The entirety of the language in this book is in English.
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"What the hell do you think you're doing?" I asked, glaring at him while he forcefully dragged me out of class.
"You told me you need help, and here I am!" Blake yelled.
"Where did that come from?! What are you even talking about?!" I screamed at him.
"I know you talked to Ryder about your situation. " My eyes widen and I yanked my hands out from his grasp.
"I hate you..." I growled and starting to turn around to walk back to class.
" You don't mean that... I love you, goddamn it! " He shouted that loud that the students around us stopped what they're doing and looked at us. I stopped walking.
Before I can make a move to turn around, he beat me to it and slammed his soft pink lips against mine.
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Meet Jade Williams, typical fat, nerd, and loner you will meet in the school, but she's not how you depict it. She only has 2 best friends, Layla and Edward. They've known each other since they were 6. Jade is not the type to socialize with people, especially people thinking that they're royalty, and that's probably why she was labeled as a "loner " at bottom of the school's social chain.
And on the other hand, Blake Riley, the school's most popular, hottest, and sexiest bad boy. Typical school bad boy with his signature black leather jacket and boots. All the girls drool over him, but he didn't give a shit about them. He was mysterious, he was one of the 5 Musketeers with Jason, William, Ryder, and Andy.
What happens when the nerd met the school's bad boy just because of the biology pop quiz and they became friends? and soon lovers?
When both of them get to know each other, their hearts slowly ache, but why? Will they heal? Or is it only one of them?
Read it to find out more
* Sort of a cliche story *
WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE