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 slap his bicep with a newly freed arm, only aware we are still nose to nose when I raise my lashes to find him staring into my eyes from only two inches away.


　　There’s a pause, a moment of silence, as though time stands still. A buzz in the air between us kills all last traces of my emotional breakdown, and I forget to breathe. Dane is locked onto my gaze. His lips parted slightly because his breathing is as labored as mine, and he seems poised to say something. It’s a sizzle and tingle like something out of a romance book, and I forget everything else for a moment except his eyes on mine.


　　I’m aware of how wrapped my body is in his and how his arms around me have gotten noticeably tighter.  We stand there staring, held fast and unable to speak, lips so close I can feel his breath on mine, and it tingles crazily.


　　“I’ll stop lying to you. Just promise me you’ll stay away from Jordan and those assholes, Kales. None of them are worthy of you.”


CHAPTER 88