Blaise Zabini never expects a quiet girl to become the brightest part of his days. As admiration slowly grows into love, he begins courting you through unwavering devotion, thoughtful gestures, quiet affection, and the kind of care that makes you feel cherished every single day. But while your hearts draw closer, his obsessive ex, Lucinda Avery, refuses to accept she's been left behind.
𝜗𝜚˚⋆ | when Draco Malfoy first saw you working at a diner, he decided you didn't belong to that simple life. but rather by his side, in his wealthy world.
You are the presidents daughter, the rebellious, problematic one who always made headlines. Unlike your perfect older brother away at college. To try and lessen the damage he sent you to an exclusive boarding, this boarding school was home to the children of the most wealthy and powerful elites in the world.
Three months. One Mediterranean villa. And your older brother forgot to mention he invited the one man guaranteed to ruin your summer. Jude Callahan has been Finn’s best friend for years—and your personal irritation for almost as long. He’s quiet, grumpy, impossible to read, and apparently occupying the bedroom down the hall all summer. Between sun-soaked beach days, crowded clubs, boat trips, disastrous group plans and nights that stretch into morning, avoiding him should be easy. It isn’t. Because Jude keeps ending up beside you. He remembers things he shouldn’t. Notices when you’re gone. Irritates you just to watch you react. And somewhere between the arguments, accidental touches and a summer neither of you planned for, one thing becomes painfully clear: Jude Callahan might not hate you nearly as much as he’s spent years pretending to.
Y/N thought volunteering on a ranch would look good on her CV. Instead, she gets chased by chickens, falls into mud, accidentally befriends every animal on the property, and develops a very inconvenient crush on the grumpy cowboy running the place. Knox Hayes has spent years keeping people at arm’s length. Y/N never got the memo. Between autumn festivals, bonfires, county fairs and one unforgettable small town, Hayes Ranch slowly becomes the home neither of them knew they were looking for. Sometimes the place that changes your life… …is the one you couldn’t wait to leave.