“Dammit, Caleb! Why the hell do you have to be so dense?” she snapped at me, all traces of amusement vanishing from her eyes. “Just go check on Aurora, will you?”
“Why?”I shot back, equally frustrated.
“She’s your mate, isn’t she? And don’t ask me how I know, Caleb. You gave yourself away that day at the restaurant!” She threw her arms up in exasperation. “Just… go check on Aurora already. You’re seriously hopeless!”
“Will you please stop interfering in my life?” I sighed, rubbing my temples. “I told you before—there has to be some kind of mistake! Don’t try to force us together unnecessarily.”
Aurora Valentine wishes she could escape this world and leave everything behind. Tormented, bullied, and harassed on a daily basis, she lives under the mercy of her treacherous, gambling, and alcoholic father, who takes sick pleasure in abusing her. Her fellow high school students despise her for no reason, and she faces relentless harassment at work. The only thing anchoring her to this life is her five-year-old brother, Riley, whom her mother entrusted to her on her deathbed.
But everything changes when the school’s biggest bully and bad boy, Caleb Blackburn, suddenly takes an interest in her.
The boy who once tormented her has become her unexpected protector, drawing not just new allies but also the wrath of jealous classmates who want her gone for good. How can she reconcile the fact that her former tormentor is now obsessed with her? Will she take a chance on love, or will she meet the same tragic fate as her mother—broken, destroyed, and buried six feet under?
Book 1 in the Duology.
