The Distance Between Us
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Last published Sat, Jun 21, 2025
The space between them was suppose to be PERMANENT, but maybe some distances weren't meant to LAST.
Vera Leung has spent her life in the shadows, the overlooked heir to Leung & Co. While her brother is set to inherit the family empire, she refuses to stand by and let it happen. She's spent years proving she's just as capable, if not more. No distractions. No mistakes. No room for failure.
But then there's Lawrence Lancaster. A self-made success, effortlessly charming and dangerously perceptive for his own good. Once a ghost from her past, now standing in her way. A temporary professor with a clever tongue, a fortune built on his own terms, and a smirk that makes her blood boil. Everyone wants to unravel his mystery, but the only puzzle he's interested in is Vera.
The more she tries to push him away, the more he gets under her skin. Because Lawrence doesn't just see the polished version of her that the world expects. He sees the fire she's buried. The hunger she tries to ignore. And worst of all, he looks at her like he still knows her.
She can't afford to let him in.
But in a game of ambition, power, and a past neither of them can outrun... the line between love and hate has never been thinner.
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