Cruel Bully

A Dark Mafia Academy Romance (The Syndicate Academy)

By: Bianca Cole

Narrated by: Autumn Ivy, Corvin King

He’s spent years tormenting me, but now he wants to own me.

I’ve spent years trying to avoid Elias Morales, King of the syndicate academy. He hated me on first sight, and I learned to hate him. A hatred that never had any cause, but defined us both. Elias may be the most devastatingly handsome boy at the academy, but he’s cruel to the core.

Senior year is finally here, and my escape is in sight. I’ll never have to see my tormentor again once I graduate. But, Elias doesn’t intend to let me go that easily. He wants to make sure I’ll never forget him, no matter how hard I try.

He blackmails me when he finds dirt on my family. Information that could tear our world apart. I will not let him destroy the one thing I care about. Which means I have to be his pet for the rest of the year.

He intends to own me and claim my innocence on his terms. He wants to leave me broken and destroyed in ways I never imagined were possible. I thought he hated me, but his actions don't make any sense.

They say there is a fine line between love and hate. I can already feel the line blurring as my tormentor lays his claim. The question is, will I walk out of the academy free or will Elias finally break me?

Cruel Bully is the second book in the Syndicate Academy Series. This book can be read as a standalone and has a happily ever after ending. This is a dark bully romance story and has dark themes, hot scenes, violence, content some readers may find upsetting, and bad language.

©2022 Bianca Cole (P)2025 Bianca Cole

Great narration!

I’m down for just about any audiobook where Corvin King does accents. Both narrators did a fantastic job bringing the characters to life.

A really good 4 star mafia read!

I’m pretty sure this is my first book by Bianca Cole but also sure that it won’t be my last period sometimes, when books say that they are bully romance? They are nothing of the sort. However THIS was definitely a bully romance. We had the blackmail the dubcon, humiliation, praise, body betrayal, possessive, obsession, alphamale, crazy, unreasonable MMC. Yes, Elias had it all.
That being said, it wasn’t overly so. All of these elements happened, much more than they do in the average bully romance however, I have read much darker. This was dark enough that I will definitely be checking out the other books as this probably falls in the median of light to dark bully romances.
The spice level in this book, however, was off the chain hot. This new to me, Author Bianca Cole knows her stuff and have been finding myself. I didn’t hurt that while I was listening and we had Corvin King & Autumn Ivy narrating our characters during these parts? I had to turn my radio down to make sure nobody could hear inside my very dirty car! lol
I didn’t realize until I was well into the book that this was actually part two of a series. They gave just enough glimpses of the first couple that I’m actually planning on going back and reading there’s first and then continue on two books 3 and four afterward. I love having a nice catalog to review as this is a good author that I will be reading more of.
All in all, a fantastic new author who gets the whole dark spectrum who understands the elements of a bully romance, and who provides them in spades. Can’t wait to see what happens next!

voice actors

very good plot recommend this audiobook voice actors superb!!! corvin King is one of my favorite voice actors and recommend this book to anyone. very good book! 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

Corvin King is the King of audio

I absolutely loved listening to this book! It was so spicy and the story line itself was excellent.

Love it when they have dual narrative!

I love Corbin, King and Wood. Listen to anything he read this one was especially nice because he read for all of his parts not just the chapters like they do in some dual narration.