Chapter 1

Arabella never believed in fairytales, not in happy ever afters or Prince Charming. She was like a china doll, beautiful to look at yet too beautiful to touch, or so they thought. Kept tucked away in the Andes Mountains for the whole of her childhood she studied the years away in a Colombian Prep School. It would take the death of her estranged mother to bring the young girl back to the states. Once again thrown into a world of stuffy debutant balls and flashy west coast money Arabella struggled to make sense of a life she swore she’d never return to. Then there’s Ruben, notorious bad boy. Ruben screams trouble, from his motorcycle boots to the tattoos scrawled across his back. After a threat on his baby sister’s life Ruben turns he local gang for protection, the initiation to gang life has left him scarred both physically and mentally. Yet Arabella cant keep away. Brought together by fate the pair begins an unlikely romance destined to destroy them both. With his blackened skin Ruben will never fit into Arabella’s snow-white life. Read on to find out what happens when the know it all meets the bad boy.