Don't look. Don't want. Don't fall. She failed all three…
My best friend Tatum wanted revenge on her ex, Kyler Reed.
In thirty seconds, she rewrote my article—outing him as gay, accusing him of using drugs, and claiming he was secretly sleeping with my brother Chase.
Then she hit publish.
Fifteen minutes later, Kyler was dead.
They called it suicide. The town called me a monster.
They were wrong. Kyler didn’t jump.
He was pushed.
Two and half years later, I’m still Caldwell’s most hated girl.
Trapped in a forced engagement to a narcissistic asshole, suffocating under my controlling mother, secretly craving darkness I know I shouldn’t want.
Then one night, I ran into the pouring rain… and straight into him.
Kai Reed—Kyler’s older brother. Tall, lethally handsome, covered in rain and blood, brutally beating a man half to death with his fists.
One scorching look from those intense sea-green eyes and something inside me ignited.
Heart pounding. Thighs clenching. A dark, forbidden thrill I couldn’t suppress.
I didn't know he'd been stalking me for years.
I didn't know he once stood in my bedroom with a knife in his hand, ready to kill me…until he watched me try to end my own life instead.
I didn’t know that the next morning, the same man would walk into my class as the charming new guest professor—polished, charismatic, and watching me like I already belong to him.
Kai came back to destroy me.
But the way he looks at my neck, my long hair, and the little red butterfly pendant at my throat tells me his plans have changed.
The most dangerous thing I’ve ever done isn’t surviving this town’s hatred.
It's realizing I don’t want him to stop.
