Kurt Mendeleeve

It started as a simple bet—a game to prove he could charm anyone. She was just the next name on his list, nothing more. Confident and smug, he thought it would be easy.

But as days turned into weeks, the lines blurred. Her laugh, her stubbornness, the way she saw the world—it all caught him off guard. The game no longer mattered. He didn’t realize it yet, but the one who’d truly been played was him.