I needed you to hate me

Rowan Rose wanted nothing more than to become a successful real estate agent with her own company. That's what she had always dreamed of. Her dreams never changed-but her own world did, when her best friend betrayed her. Her heart was torn apart, and it ate her up piece by piece. Will she succeed anyway or will she fall apart under the weight of it all?

Kirill Romanov is exactly where he's supposed to be-running the company of his father, alongside his older brother, while living the life everyone envies. Taking over the company was easy compared to the choices he had to make to get there.

Including hurting the person that mattered the most.

He tells himself that it was necessary. That it was the only way.

And the truth behind it might be the one thing that could destroy, or fix-everything.

What happens when those two worlds collide, after years of being apart? Hatred against hatred. Will they tear each other apart, or will they find a way to face what still lingers between them?

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"I waited for you."

"What?" I asked, not understanding what he meant. He waited for me?

"I was waiting for you for four years. Ever since the night we had that fight. I waited every single day for you." He paused. "I didn't touch another woman, I didn't date another woman and I never had sex with anyone else other than you."

My heart was burning with the feeling I tried to drown in.

"What do you mean?" I stepped closer towards him until we were only some feet apart in the middle of a soaking street. "Why did you wait for me, Kirill?"

He ran a shaky hand through his dripping wet hair, droplets of rain running down his perfectly sculptured face. He was so pretty it hurt not being able to touch him in the way I desired too.

I wanted to caress his face and tell him that I loved him, even if it would be my undoing.

"I waited because I have always only loved you, Rowan."