𝐖𝐀𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 | 𝟏𝟖+
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"What does it feel like to be a heartless bitch?"
"Cold."
. . .
Everyone loves Katherine Hartley - or at least, they love the illusion. Katherine reigns both on campus and at the elite ballet academy founded and owned by her father.
She's every warning wrapped in silk.
Elegance carved in ice, she's a girl raised to be disciplined, untouchable and most of all; perfect - a swan sculpted by years of brutal training and emotional isolation.
Love was never meant for her. Especially not the kind that lingers - obsessive, aching... wrong.
Especially not from the boy she's known since childhood. He's the one who sees through her mask, sees everything she tries to hide.
And for the first time, Katherine starts to wonder what it would be like to fall - even if it ruins everything.
He knows loving her may ruin him. But letting her go would destroy him.
He's everything she can't want. And the only thing that makes her feel alive.
She's the only thing he wants, but can't have.
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