✿ Why Him? || Book1
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✧ Welcome to Why Him? ✧
Elena Carter is a scholarship student with a plan: survive the elite, get the degree, and never look back. She's the sunshine in a world draped in shadow.
But the shadows have a name, and his name is Riven Blackwood.
A billionaire heir who has already conquered the world Elena is just trying to enter, Riven is cold, cynical, and dangerously bored. He's a man who has seen it all and hated most of it-until he saw her. Now, they're trapped under the same roof, and the "playboy" has found the one girl who doesn't want his money or his name.
He's morally grey, he's possessive, and he's decided that if Elena Carter is going to ruin his life, he's going to enjoy every second of the fall.
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Riven: "Everyone in here is starving for my gaze, Elena. But you? You won't even look at me. And that makes you the most interesting problem I've ever had to solve."
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Elena: "Because living under the same roof as someone like Riven Blackwood feels like walking on broken glass every single day."
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What to expect:
♛ Billionaire x Scholarship Student
♛ Dark Academia Aesthetics
♛ "Touch Her and Die" / Obsessive Lead
♛ Slow Burn / Healing from Trauma
♛ He falls first... and he falls hard.
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