He is the problem. She is the one who keeps getting pulled back in. And together they’re locked in that rich California loop: beautiful life, beautiful people, heartbreaking dynamic
📖 Summary: The Indefinite Contract This is an angst-driven arranged marriage trope centered on the son (the calculating, terrifying Pierson Mafia heir) and the daughter (whose family is the Pierson's rival). The two Mafia families, constantly embroiled in brutal warfare, seek a compulsory, indefinite alliance through the marriage of their heirs. This union is purely political; neither the son nor the daughter wanted the marriage, but they were forced by their parents into an unbreakable contr
The mansion wasn’t beautiful—at least not in the warm, welcoming sense. It rose from the woods like a fortress, all stone walls. Inside lived eight sixteen-year-olds who never got the luxury of boredom.
A confident, high-ego but genuinely sweet varsity baseball player decides he wants the quiet, black-cat girl who never pays him any attention. Their story begins the moment he finally walks up to her and asks for her number, starting a soft, unexpected sophomore-year spark.