Western Waves — Brittainy C. Cherry

I always believed in fairy tales, but he believed in nightmares.

Damian Blackstone didn't care about my existence. He came into my world for one reason only. He came to find answers about his past.

He moved like the villain in my favorite fairy tales. He wasn't the one who received the happily ever afters; he was the one who destroyed them.

Which was why I couldn't understand why the man who raised me set it up in his will for Damian and me to be married. I wasn't certain I'd be able to live with a man like Damian. We were as opposite as any two people could be. I loved to bathe in the sunlight while he prospered in the shadows.

I didn't think I'd develop feelings for the one who looked at me as if I were nothing more than a means to an end. Yet in his darkness, sometimes I'd see sparks of light. I'd see gentleness. I'd see his soul.

We became entangled with one another as we fell into mistakes and called them fate. I was his Cinderella, and he was my Beast.

I wasn't certain that twisted fairy tales ended with happily ever afters.
Still, I was determined to find out.

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Alternate blurb:

I'd never met my father, but on the day he died, he left me a letter. He said he'd leave all of his millions to me if I completed the tasks on his list.

The first task at hand? Move into the same household as Stella Lane, my new step-sister. Stella was cold. I was ice, too.

Stella was lonely. I craved being alone. Stella didn't speak unless she had something to say.

Each month, a new letter arrived with a new task. Each month, the tasks grew darker as more secrets of my past were revealed.

Somehow every task circled back to the lonely girl living down the hall from me.

Stella Lane didn't speak unless she had something to say.

All I wanted was for her to have something to say to me.