THE WAITRESS AND THE HEIR
READING AGE 16+
Lila has spent three years surviving Legacy Prep the only way she knows how—keeping her head down, protecting her best friend, and never looking the popular kids in the eye. By day she is the school’s easiest target. By night she is just a waitress trying to pay the rest of her tuition.
Then she witnesses a murder behind the diner.
Suddenly the one person who has always ignored her decides she is worth his attention.
Roman is the untouchable king of Legacy Prep and the heir to a powerful mafia empire. When his father orders him to get close to the quiet waitress who saw too much, Roman treats it like any other assignment: charm her, earn her trust, and make sure she never talks. Becoming a made man depends on it.
What he does not expect is to fall for the girl he was sent to control.
Lila cannot understand why the school’s most dangerous boy suddenly wants to protect her. One smile from him makes every other girl jealous. One touch makes her question everything she thought she knew about herself. But the closer she lets him get, the more she realizes she was never just a random girl he chose.
She was always part of the mission.
And Roman is starting to realize that finishing the job might cost him the only thing he never planned on wanting.
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Roman sat in the parked car outside her building long after the light in her window had gone dark.
The street was quiet. Ordinary. The kind of block where nothing of consequence was supposed to happen, and where he had nonetheless begun spending pieces of his nights making sure nothing did. Asher had already rotated off the e……
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