Chapter 1Clarissa.“Congratulations. You have been accepted into the Elites Institution of Atlanta.”I blinked at the message again on my phone screen, barely breathing. I always told myself I’d rewrite my own story someday by working hard and not by having my test scores stolen and resold like cheap candy.My heart flickered in disbelief as the words glowed back at me like a second chance I didn’t think I deserved. Yes, I didn’t! Hard work paid off.I've read it a third time ever since it was sent.After all the rejections, the false hopes, the weeks of praying and scraping by, I’d finally been accepted. I had fought tooth and nail to get into a university in this city, one that was built for the children of senators, CEOs, and oil magnates. It was very difficult and an unexpected grace for me.It wasn’t made for girls like me—low-class, ambitious, and barely recognized. My results had been “lost” twice, tampered with, and sold off to some rich politician’s daughter before I even go

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Chapter 2Clarissa.My eyes were stuck on his for so long, I couldn’t look away even if I wanted to. Damien’s eyes, those piercing blue oceans, stared straight into my soul like they could unravel every secret I tried to bury. His broad chest, his defined and hefty muscles, the hard lines of his six-pack… God, I didn’t even realize my hand was still pressed against his chest until I felt it start to tremble, his breathing going up and down.I was frozen, not from fear but from something deeper. A feeling I thought I’d buried years ago, long before I reminded myself he was my step-cousin.That was when the memory hit me like a wave, sweeping me back to a moment three years ago. A time before he travelled and I began to accept Clinton as my boyfriend out of frustration and reminding myself that he is just my cousin and off-limits!Damien had always been the man of my dreams. Even when we were still in secondary school. Even when I knew I shouldn’t feel the way I did. He was my step-cous

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Chapter 3Damien’s POVClarissa hasn’t always looked this beautiful.The Clarissa I knew back then… She wasn’t like this. She wasn’t someone who made my chest tighten or my jaw clench and is someone I always see as a sister. But now that I’m back from the States, everything’s changed totally. She’s changed. Long wavy hair, soft lips, that hourglass shape… God. She’s sexy, way too sexy. I couldn’t tear my eyes off her the entire time we talked. Damn!Then she came downstairs dressed for the party, and my heart just about jumped out of my damn chest.She looked… so pretty and gorgeous in that short red gown. I couldn’t help but salivate.My eyes betrayed me; I couldn’t control myself anymore, scanning every curve on her hot body; my brain was just fogging up. What the hell, Damien? She’s your step-cousin. You shouldn’t be thinking these things. But I couldn’t stop myself.When did she get this hot?Why the hell am I… jealous? The thought of some random guy looking at her the way I just

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Chapter 4The Party TrapClinton’s POVToday has done a lot of things to me; it’s really been a long day, and I still have her in every corner of my mind.Today was the day I broke up with my girlfriend. No, let me just call her what she really was. My bitch. Yeah, I didn’t really love her, and honestly I only came into her life to use her to get what I wanted, which is getting into the elite university because she’s damn intelligent and I’m not even sorry about it.I wanted this, to be honest, I really did. Even though part of me felt a little weird about the whole thing, like something inside had cracked a bit, like I was still yearning for her. But we’d been together for so long, and I was fed up and tired of her, tired of the boring routine. I wanted something new, someone else, not someone who was just given to me by my parents as betrothed.I need someone who could make me stand out. Someone influential. Popular. Someone who could boost my status now that I’m in the university a

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