Too Much Bad
Anabeth Hale has spent her life swallowed by silence. Raised in a home where she was more ghost than daughter, she grew up learning that the only way to survive neglect was to shrink herself small enough to be forgotten. When she enters Blackridge University, she dreams of reinvention—of finally stepping into a world where she can be seen, heard, and wanted.
But freedom comes with its own storms.
Hungry for connection yet terrified of vulnerability, Anabeth drifts through campus life with reckless abandon—searching for warmth in temporary places, unsure of who she is beneath the loneliness she carries.
Then she meets him.
Damian Knight—a man whose presence chills the air, whose reputation shadows half the city, and whose eyes stay as cold as the empire he’s destined to inherit. He is the silent heir of a powerful mafia family, feared by many and trusted by none. Damian doesn’t believe in affection, in softness, in love. His world has no space for fragile things.
Until Anabeth crosses his path.
What begins as a chance encounter spirals into a dangerous connection. Drawn to her without understanding why, Damian finds himself entangled in a girl whose gentleness threatens the armor he has spent a lifetime building. And Anabeth, despite knowing better, is pulled toward the only person more broken than she is.
As their lives intertwine, campus becomes the battleground for quiet wars—between fear and longing, danger and desire, the past and the future. From whispered confrontations to explosive truths, they fight their own demons while confronting the darkness closing in around them.
But when the shadows of Damian’s world collide violently with Anabeth’s attempt at a new life, choices must be made—about sacrifice, trust, and what love truly demands.
In a story of 100 chapters, Anabeth will learn what it means to reclaim herself, and Damian will learn what it costs to feel. Together, they face betrayal, protection, healing, and a forbidden bond that transforms them both.
Because even the coldest man in the city cannot withstand the one person whose light was never meant to be small.
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