Barriers​

Summary

Adrian Shaw, heir to a staggering fortune, spent years chasing me, humbling himself in ways a man of his stature never should. I never said yes.

Then, in the seventh year, a new girl appeared by his side.

I heard she was beautiful, kind, from a family as prominent as his, and that she only had eyes for Adrian.

Adrian’s friends would smirk at me, their voices dripping with schadenfreude.

"Careful, Mara," they’d say. "You keep playing games with him, you might just find he's been snatched away for good."