"He looked like an angel. Not like those people who call their lovers angel because they wanna be sweet, but in a way where if I met God today, Ryder, holy and good, would be standing right there. By God's right-hand side, obliged to give me a tender kiss. It's quite funny though, Ryder can never be holy."
Aiko, the second child, has sealed the most important deal of her life.
To be the next heir of the Rockefeller empire, Aiko has to complete the ten difficult tasks her brother, the supposed-heir, wrote on a leather-bound notebook and return it to him with proof before her graduation. Including a task of making a certain rich boy fall deeply in love with her.
In Venisde Academy, she was a girl with a bleeding crevice tucked in her mind to which all hope for some sort of blithe burned to ice. But she could thank it, she would've been much more timid, if not for Zachary Vildan, until the boy left without a word one morning. Unmistakably, wordlessly, severing all ties with the girl.
Every single thing was checked off on her list, yet for the past 2 years, she's been stuck on the tenth.
10) Make Ryder Peterson fall for you.
It was the most difficult one of all, and approaching her senior year, she has lost all hope of Ryder ever falling for her.
Just as she was about to give up on an empire that she once dreamed she would have in her hands, one night of chaos filled with mafias, blades, and four of the most powerful rich boys of Venisde Academy promising a contract with her would make her lost dreams reappear and tumble back onto her fast as she could ever imagine it to be.
[If you like angst, and the joy and rebellion of shipping the protagonist with other main characters, then this book is meant for you.]
tags: dark academia, rich boys, mafia, billionaires, bad boy, highschool, teen, elite, private school, friendship contracts, deals, heartbreak, jealousy, yearning, diversity
The entirety of the language in this book is in English.
Boarding with the Bad Boy [COMPLETE + BONUS published edition]
100 parts Complete Mature
100 parts
Complete
Mature
"You like this, don't you?" Sam grins, running his tongue over his lip ring. "You're turned on by it."
"Please," I wave my hand in dismissal.
"You are," he accuses, his voice light. He does it again. I can't look away.
"Stop."
"Why should I? Little Miss 'I hate everyone at Ryder' really does find me irresistible. Who am I to deny her?" Sam's voice has something of an edge to it and my eyes snap to his.
"'Little miss 'I hate everyone at Ryder', huh?" I ignore the second part of his jab.
"That's right."
I lean against my wardrobe, crossing my arms over my chest. "There's only a few people at Ryder I really can't stand, and you're at the top of my list."
Sam's eyes narrow on me. "Is that so?" He turns from the mirror and takes a step in my direction. I refuse to back down, tilting my chin up to keep his gaze as he crowds into my space. His eyes hold mine until he's close enough that I can feel the warmth of his breath over my cheeks and his focus shifts to my mouth. He runs his tongue over the lip ring again, and I feel my own lips part slightly as he does it, my breath coming a little faster. My stomach is pulsing with a mix of nervousness and something I'm not totally ready to admit to myself.
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Logan Grey's a 16 year-old girl with a penchant for Bob Dylan and running long distances. When her father dies suddenly, she and her best friend come up with a scheme to keep her from moving to her grandparents' Ohio estate: two years of boarding at her Connecticut hometown's highly renowned prep school. But a fluke lands Logan in a room with Ryder Academy's hottest, baddest boy and it's pretty obvious they're not going to get along. At least until Sam Evans and his sexy-as-hell lip ring saunter into her life, upending everything she thought she knew.
[This story contains strong language and sexual content. You've been warned!]