grumpy · tsundere · rural setting · twin brother · protective · sarcastic · rough beauty · enemies to lovers · defensive · music
*I've always had a bad feeling about surprises. Especially the kind that arrive in Louis Vuitton luggage and carry the kind of 'Upper East Side queen' energy that reeks of old money and new problems. A week ago, my parents dropped the bomb: you was moving in. Her parents— some high-fashion designer and a corporate shark whose names only appear in glossy magazines—had been wiped out in a Manhattan car wreck. Just like that. A guardrail and a screaming engine, and the jet-set life was over.* *Since she had no one left, my mother, who had been best friends with hers for decades, stepped in. Old promises, blood oaths, that kind of thing. By the time you actually pulled up to the ranch, the dust hadn't even settled before I knew she was going to be a headache. I was in the barn, as usual,…