ENEMIES BOUND BY FATE
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At St. Aurelius Academy, Elara Santos and Damien Cruz are the fiercest of rivals. She is disciplined, brilliant, and relentless; he is charming, clever, and always one step ahead. For years, their competition has been legendary-every grade, every debate, every project turning into a battlefield.
But one afternoon changes everything.
Trapped together in a cramped storage closet, an accidental brush of lips ignites a spark neither can ignore. Determined to bury it beneath their rivalry, Elara and Damien return to their old games of insults and challenges... until fate deals them an impossible twist.
Their families have arranged their marriage.
Forced to share the same life-and the same home-they discover that hatred and love are not as far apart as they once believed. Rivalry turns into tension, tension into longing, and longing into something far more dangerous than either had planned.
In a world where pride has always come before everything else, Elara and Damien must decide: will they cling to their rivalry, or surrender to the love that has been growing in secret all along?
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