Reckless Smile

**Vivian Summers** was a reckless brat - that's what people called her, and honestly, it wasn't an exaggeration.

Vivian is reckless. Always has been. She has guts bigger than the biggest man, as her dear sister likes to put it. She loves dressing up, but she loves throwing punches...or taking them...even more. She is the very definition of a walking contradiction.

But there is one thing everyone who has ever met her agrees on.

Vivian's most defining feature is her smile.

She has the kind of smile that makes people smile back without realizing it. It isn't her perfect teeth or even her beautiful face. It's the constant twinkle of mischief in her eyes, paired with the aura of someone blissfully unaware of how cruel the world can be. An almost infectious happiness that makes people pause and wonder.

She lives wrapped in her own little world of chaos, mischief, and blissful ignorance...

Until she meets him.

Her stability.

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**Kaden White** was anything but steady.

Always calculating. Always on guard. He viewed the world from a distance, with equal parts distrust and disinterest.

But the truth of his nature was miles away from what people believed. Though, in their defense, with Kaden's permanently blank expression and habit of speaking only when necessary, some girls even giggled and called him shy.

The truth?

He was anything but.

The only difference between Vivian's recklessness and Kaden's was that hers left room for failure-and she had a heart resilient enough to recover from it.

Kaden's plans never failed.

Nor did he possess a heart capable of accepting loss.

With personalities this complicated, Kaden never expected to become the target of Vivian Summers' full, relentless, and completely undivided attention... or her shameless attempts at courting him.

Now Kaden has a problem.

Should he plan his escape...

Or set the trap?