The Polo Club
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Lyra Delaine, probably the most stubborn and infuriating girl Sebastian Hayes had ever met. After nearly six years studying and living together at the well-known Blackwell Hall, they'd built something far stronger than friendship: a pure, fierce, and deafening rivalry, forged on the school's flag field, through the fire of their shared obsession, polo.
Belonging to opposing teams meant every match was war. To Sebastian, Lyra was the perfect, rule-following girl. Captain of her team, top of her class, part of the chorus, devoted to the church - the kind of girl who lived by every measurement her parents imposed. While he, the so-called disgrace of his family name, fought just to stay barely within the lines.
By the otherside, to Lyra, Sebastian was the untamable rebel, the boy who'd never be fixed. A traitor to his blood.
But neither of them ever imagined they'd be bound by something far heavier than rivalry: family duty. The aristocratic legacies they were born into demanded preservation - purity through arranged unions. And so, the Delaines and the Hayeses struck a deal that would secure their status for another generation, binding their only daughter and eldest son in a marriage neither asked for.
What began as defiance soon blurred and as their worlds collided, they realized they weren't so different after all.
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