y/n needs to pay back a debt, all while navigating an addict father. Koda is an underground boxer, wanting to keep his distance from her the second he spots her that first day of school, but he can’t stay away. the closer he gets, the more he needs to keep her safe. but a thing about y/n? safe was never an option.
After a traumatic experience, you threw your life into bad decisions. Hanging around the wrong crowd became your norm, drinking, smoking, anything to conceal the thoughts and memories. You’d never told anyone about what happened, to them all, you just changed one day, the light in your eyes turning hard and stony. Having enough of your attitude and self destructive decisions, your parents send you to live with your uncle on his ranch in a small town in texas. They hope that the barn work and deminished access to the city trouble will cure you, but they don’t know that it springs from within you. You’re on a rapid path to your own demise, until you get there and meet the towns supposed golden boy, Ashton Cormac, who helps out at your uncles ranch. Everyone loves him, he’s kind and annoyingly capable, things that you feel you can never be again. Will you be able to deflect the world that’s nothing like the one your used to, keep up your guard, and let your mind destroy you from the inside out? Or will you find that he somehow slipped beneath your icy surface before you even realized, and is determined to uncover the real you.