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

　　I feel sick to my stomach to know even Jordan reduced me to some object to make remarks over. I never want to know if it had to be bad enough to send Tyler into a jealous meltdown of over-protectiveness so that he yelled at Elisa.


　　“They were really saying things like that?” My voice breaks, lowering my tone, and all anger dissipates as, instead, a heavy hurt in my heart sets in. Forgetting all my reasons for being mad at these two for days as I am hit with something that swipes my legs from under me emotionally. A flicker of betrayal from boys I have gone to school with and grown up with for years. Boys I thought were different from Dane, and his crowd of ego maniac fuck boys.


　　“Yeah, and some. Dane went off at one of them in DM’s, making him crazy angry. He threatened to come through and beat the shit out of Jordan, then Jordan blocked him. He was drunk and crazy pissed off, and then you two fought, and Dane went stellar that night.”


CHAPTER 83