Soft Enough to Break

Grace has spent most of her life learning how to disappear.
At eighteen, newly arrived at an elite university where wealth shines brighter than kindness, she tells herself the same thing she always has: keep your head down, take up less space, survive. Boys like Alex Blackthorne don't notice girls like her unless it's to laugh.
Alex is used to being watched. As the golden son of a powerful family, rich, beautiful, and impossible to ignore, he's spent years perfecting the version of himself the world expects. But behind the charm and the expensive smiles is someone far lonelier than anyone realizes.
Grace was never supposed to matter to him.
Alex was never supposed to feel safe to her.
But in the quiet spaces between midnight conversations, stolen glances, and the fragile ache of being seen, they find something neither of them knows how to hold.
Because Grace doesn't believe beautiful boys love girls like her.
And Alex has never wanted anything more than to prove her wrong.