Stay away from that boy.
That's what they all told me, but I was never one to be obedient.
The Boy who Broke the Rules. All Rights Reserved.
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He was the mysterious lonely boy who found her in a clearing and told her to stay still as he sketched a portrait of her.
Entranced by his voice and intensity of his gaze, she let him draw her.
But what lay behind his sketches and silent stares was something more.
And she was willing to find out.
"A soul for a soul."
The last thing Katerina Manning expected was to die at the age of 16.
Having lived a short and unfulfilling life, she would do anything for a chance to live again. So when Death turns up with a deal that gives her just that, she takes it.
Now all Kat has to do is find someone to take her spot, or to put it bluntly, kill someone within 12 days.
That someone being the notorious football prodigy and her brother's long time tormentor.
Dante.
// teen fiction // short story //
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