{Enemies to Lovers}
My door creaked open. I looked up from the desk, but seeing her made me scowl. "Leave," I ordered, before looking back down at my laptop screen.
She sighed, letting her bag fall onto the ground, "Sir, I need you to teach me," she basically begged me.
I scoffed, "I send you out of this academy because I only train actual ballerinas, not ugly ducklings." But she stared at me with pleading eyes, "Sir please, I-"
"No."
"But my life depends on it!"
-=~=-
She hated dance. He lived for ballet. Then she had to survive by dancing.
Myles is a soldier, not a dancer, let alone a ballerina. But when things go wrong the army is looking for her, to arrest her, she doesn't have a choice.
Monsieur D'Esmond is a ballet teacher, working at the most elite ballet academy in Paris. He has to help her out to survive, but he doesn't want to.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
*****
Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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