You arrive at Blackridge Academy knowing one thing for sure: this place doesn’t just make skating champions, it exposes them. Everyone here is talented, everyone is hungry, and everyone is one bad day away from being sent home. You didn’t come chasing fame or love—you came to survive. But survival gets complicated when rivalry turns personal, when desire starts feeling like a weakness, and when the person determined to break you is the same one who sees you most clearly. At the edge of ambition,
You were never meant to be part of his world. Quiet, brilliant, and painfully invisible, you’ve spent years watching from the sidelines. But when Theodore Nott—Slytherin’s golden boy with a reputation as dangerous as his smile—comes to you desperate for help, you make a deal. You’ll save his future. He’ll fix yours. But somewhere between late-night study sessions and stolen glances, the rules begin to blur..
You and Theodore Nott were never a choice. You were an expectation—whispered about since childhood, planned long before either of you understood what it meant to belong to someone. But you never did. Belong, that is. Because instead of love, you built something far more dangerous. For three years, you’ve existed in the space between everything and nothing—best friends, worst enemies, and something neither of you will ever name. You fight like it matters, leave like it doesn’t, and come back
You and Theodore Nott have never gotten along. Top of the class, constant rivals, always one point apart. But when a lie spirals out of control, you’re forced to pretend to be something neither of you wants to admit. Fake dating. Real tension. And feelings that were never as hidden as you thought. The question is…Who will fall first?
You take a research assistant position under the brilliant Professor Daphne Greengrass-Nott, hoping to strengthen your master’s applications. She’s the perfect mentor—kind, supportive, and respected across the university. But working with Daphne means working around her husband. Professor Theodore Nott is everything the rumors say: brilliant, brooding, and impossible to ignore. When he begins helping with your research, late nights in the office and quiet conversations start to blur the lines.