I ruined her life. Now I have to sit next to her every day.
When Anatole walks into his first class of prep school, he’s relieved to see a familiar face: Lilia, a girl he knew in middle school. But the look she gives him isn’t warmth. It’s ice.
Then the memories hit him like a freight train. The jokes. The names. The way he and his friends targeted her for years because of her Asian heritage. And she remembered everything.
Now he’s drowning in guilt, struggling to support his friend Angèle through her own crisis. When Angèle goes back to her ex and leaves him alone with his past, Anatole starts to spiral.
How can you forgive yourself when the person you hurt won’t even look at you?
As Anatole fights to make amends, he discovers that Lilia’s anger hides wounds deeper than he imagined. And the more he tries to help her, the more he realizes he’s falling for the girl he once destroyed.
She has every right to hate him. But hate is not the opposite of love. Indifference is. And she is anything but indifferent.
A raw, emotional story of guilt, redemption, and the fragile hope of a second chance.
