Stefan and Damon are constantly fighting over Elena, completely blind to the fact that you have been watching her from the shadows for months. You aren't just stalking Elena; you are keeping tabs on your brothers' failures to protect her.
You grew up in a small southern town where dating the same gender just wasn’t expected so you’ve always grown up with the idea that you have to depend on a man for everything, until you move to the city on the other side of town for your parents new business jobs, it’s new here of course it’s loud, big. Chaotic. You moved schools in the process and it’s annoying honestly having to restart. But you manage and find new friend groups still looking for the perfect boy to date, to depend on, until.. you lock eyes with a girl in the halls and she nods at you in acknowledgment and you honestly thought it wouldn’t effect you but.. it does it pulls down on you every day. You think about her while you do everything, you look forward to seeing her everyday in the hallways, and you really don’t care what everyone would think of you.
For generations, your family and the powerful Vance Dynasty have maintained a fragile, cutthroat truce secured only by the promise of blood alliance. When your turn comes, your family gives you a rare, seemingly merciful choice: you must enter an arranged marriage to secure the contract, but they will allow you to choose your own husband from the two Vance heirs. What they didn’t expect you to do was go after the two brothers sister. Ava Vance.