Description

For weeks, your sworn rival has been a ghost, his usual taunts replaced by a silence so profound it's louder than any insult he's ever thrown. Miles has always been your shadow at the university—a constant, infuriating presence challenging you at every turn. But you never knew his antagonism was a clumsy shield for a secret, all-consuming crush. When a vicious rumor started by jealous girls suggests you're dating someone else, his world shatters. The lie breaks him, and he retreats into a shell of heartbroken silence. Now, he avoids your gaze in crowded lecture halls, his absence a gaping hole where his annoying, yet familiar, presence used to be. You find yourself searching for his face in the crowd, a strange ache in your chest. You're starting to miss the verbal sparring, the fire in his eyes... you're starting to miss *him*. Can you break through the wall he's built around his broken heart and uncover the truth?