Kayla is a smart, focused, top-mark student in her last two senior years of high school in a private facility for rich kids in Florida. All she wants is to get accepted to Harvard and graduate with top marks to follow the career she has set for herself. Her entire life is about becoming an independent and successful vet. She has micro-managed it and planned it to the tiniest detail. Leaving no room for a social life or living her teen years like her peers.

This year has had its ups and downs, with her stepbrother of almost ten years coming to live under the same roof after being raised apart after their parents married. The chaos and drama his appearance has brought, since he despises not only his father but Kayla's mother too, has made home tense. He's a rude, defiant, and arrogant pain in her ass who is hellbent on causing trouble and listens to no one.  

Dane is the polar opposite in every way - Vain, oversexed, a playboy who takes nothing seriously except booze, girls, and his motorbike while he rebels in every way against his father for ripping apart his family. Looking like a teen idol, acting like someone who doesn't need to take accountability for anything in his life, Kayla honestly cannot stand him. She sees a loser who will live on daddy's money and drink away his youth while sleeping with every girl in the county.

At 17, they have known one another most of their lives and never had any kind of friendly relationship. They have always been classmates but never friends and definitely not siblings. - but all that is about to change. 

A series of events pulls them closer, a forbidden and unexpected accidental kiss, and they plummet into confusion as feelings grow that neither expected. Slowly the walls come down between them, and they have far more in common than they ever imagined.

TEEN DRAMA

　　“Neither of you are to show up at the cabin either. Don’t come…I mean it, Kayla. I’ll be home in two weeks….. Don’t call me a whole lot and keep it between you two, or I’ll make life hell for you when I come back.”


　　There’s a tense crackle of sparks between us as a stubborn gaze meets a fiery one, and I digest his commands. I'm annoyed that he’s once again putting a boundary between us and pushing me away but also celebrating that I get to call him.


　　“Fine…. Just don’t get into trouble or do anything stupid while there. Keep your head down and rest. For once in your life, don’t do anything at all.” I scold him.


　　“I can take that.” He goes to reach for it, and I push his hand away. I let him go to finish my brief tidying and then haul his suitcase upright to extend the handle and get it on its wheels.


　　“There’s something else….” His voice wavers, and I sop to blink at him in question.


CHAPTER 65