icon 0
icon TOP UP
rightIcon
icon Reading History
rightIcon
icon Sign out
rightIcon
icon Get the APP
rightIcon
RUIN ME, I DARE YOU.

RUIN ME, I DARE YOU.

icon

Chapter 1 The Tutor Who Doesn't Smile

Word Count: 991    |    Released on: 09/10/2026

's

r of the tutoring center just as I'm

n hour ago, when Pri

ON

stics

siness major. Pro prosp

d his dark-blond hair looking like he ran a hand through it once and called it good. He looks almost exactly li

e at th

:

late,"

t y

bad grade report to th

e D-minus and somehow

not the ones who are struggling, but the ones who lo

re not here because you need help with a couple of prob

r the first time, his expressi

hy I aske

en s

d fo

enter didn't assi

ook

unusual, but my mind immediately goes back to Priya telling me, half an hour

g doesn'

kno

do

u

ng word games with him, so

ked me doe

to a passing grade an

le, I don't have the lu

to stay here next semester. The form is sitting on my kitchen counter right now beside a stack of bills, a

d the

d this tu

us know his name, how many girls are obsessed w

st, in

t his file again, my eye

a

ge feeling

he name seems familiar somehow, and not because it's stamped all

older t

it somewhere

n't remem

here's a locked door somewhere in my memory and I kno

e you lo

oice pull

se th

out how much work

ebrow

nd

w cooperati

real laugh

tertained last night when I told her his nam

s like it was dying. The second Delia heard "Mason Hale," she perked right up, asked if I meant th

stand why that

going to pass St

he had the kind of smile that belonged to someone who'd never chec

met him, I sti

that he isn't as ca

ong, but he isn't clueless. Most of the mistakes come from gaps in the foun

put in the time,

s a r

d students

and assume paying for help shou

oesn't seem to

ly misunderstand this part. You made one mistake in th

the page fo

lot like

ok a

ck to one bad calculation, you're pr

a second, and some of t

n't

e, and I'm not interested in digging in

e Mason Hale in the campus photos and the one sitt

at it

e pen bac

it a

Claim Your Bonus at the APP

Open
RUIN ME, I DARE YOU.
RUIN ME, I DARE YOU.
“She's the tutor he hired to save his GPA. He's the smug athlete who makes her want to commit murder. Their arrangement is strictly academic. Until it isn't. Vivian Castellan has three rules: don't trust anyone, don't need anyone, and never fall for a rich boy. Mason Hale breaks all of them before the first tutoring session ends. He's arrogant, charming, and hiding a career-ending injury that will destroy everything he's worked for. She's broke, guarded, and hiding a buried secret connecting his family to her father's death. Their hatred is instant. Their attraction is inevitable. But someone is watching. Someone wants Mason for themselves. Someone has been waiting twenty years for revenge. And Viv is the perfect weapon. When the truth comes out, it won't just break their hearts. It will destroy everything they've built. He told her he'd ruin her. She told him to try. She never expected to ruin him right back.”