Nobody like you
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Dahlia Vale has two goals in life: survive her own mind, and stay invisible while doing it. Between her spiraling mental health and the weight of her medication, blending in has always been her safest choice. That is-until one fateful panic attack in front of the last person she'd ever want to witness her break.
Cooper Howard.
Campus drug dealer. Chronic flirt. The kind of boy your mother warns you about and your curiosity ignores anyway. He lives recklessly-selling to trust fund brats, sleeping around, and drifting through classes in a haze of smoke and indifference.
When Cooper catches Dahlia at her lowest, he makes her a deal: her secret stays safe, as long as she agrees to one favor. Pretend to be his date at dinner with his parents.
What begins as a desperate act to save face spirals into something neither of them understands. Beneath the masks and the mess, two broken people collide in a world that's anything but forgiving.
Will they survive each other-or burn everything down trying?
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His expression softens instantly, his thumbs brushing away the tears spilling over her cheeks. "I love you. The kind of love that'd burn the world down just to keep you safe."
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