Novel Web & Cerita Bully Misunderstanding Contemporary

“I don’t care anymore. I have friends now. I’m sure you made plenty in London.” She didn’t look affected at all. The coldness of it actually made me shiver. “You’re being immature.” “You’re an asshole.” “Watch your tone. I’m still your boss.” “My apologies, Mr. Montgomery,” she said, quiet now. “Don’t I get a welcome-back hug?” I asked, hoping, now that we’d finally said something real, she’d give an inch. Jasmine Ray and Japheth Montgomery were best friends before they were anything else — before four years of silence turned two children into strangers wearing grown-up names. Then he comes home. As her boss. Japheth is handed a company in crisis, a rival who wants to watch him fail, and the one person he never stopped thinking about, sitting behind a desk with a stranger’s coldness in her eyes. Jasmine is handed something worse: a father who’s spent nine years reminding her what she owes this family, and a man she trusts turning that debt into a weapon. Because someone close to them needs one thing — a signature, one document, one moment of Japheth’s total trust — and he knows exactly how to make Jasmine get it for him. She has one impossible choice: protect her family by becoming, once again, exactly what she swore she’d never be to Japheth again. Or risk everything to tell him the truth, and pray he doesn’t throw her out of his life a second time. This time, staying quiet isn’t safety. It’s the same mistake that cost her everything once already.

He was the campus god who had everything. She was the invisible girl holding onto nothing. Simone Liverpool is college royalty—the star athlete from a billionaire dynasty, used to a world of pristine status and superficial perfection. Chrysler Davii is just trying to survive. Drowning in grief after losing her father, dealing with a painful battle with PCOS, and constantly broken down by her mother’s cruel comments about her body, Chrysler has built a wall around herself that no one can penetrate. When a mandatory photography project forces them to partner up and road-trip across state lines, the campus scoffs. Simone’s friends mock the pairing, and Chrysler braces for a journey of humiliation. Simone is furious that his curated life is being disrupted. But out on the open highway, away from the toxic noise of the locker room, the lens shifts. Simone starts seeing the breathtaking girl behind the camera. Her grief calls to his protective instincts; her quiet resilience becomes his undoing. When he overhears the verbal abuse she faces from her own family, his frustration turns into a dark, fierce possessiveness. Simone doesn't just want to win the project—he wants to consume her world, protect her health, and destroy anyone who ever made her feel less than magnificent. He was supposed to be her worst nightmare. Instead, he’s about to become her darkest obsession.