His fist flew at me, but instead of it meeting my face, it caressed the locker next to me. My heart hammers in my chest, and it aches as I try to suppress it from causing the familiar feeling of a panic attack to ram through me. I then let out a shaky breath, and glanced wide-eyed up at him in shock. He leaned down once again, his soft plump lips grazing the crown of my ear, "The names Sawyer Walker, sweetheart". *** Loyal Bailey has accepted her undeniable fate, as she carries a treacherous past no one knows about on her beaten shoulders. The pain her heart has held, the scars that litter not only her body but her mind, and the secrets that writhe on the tip of her tongue, but will never be told. She's been used, broken, stitched back together countless times, but you wouldn't be able to tell by just looking at her. She's an artist, she's dangerous and she's quick-witted. One of her biggest secrets are her numerous insecurities, like having intense panic attacks, but how long can she really hide them for? Especially after meeting four notorious bad boys. Sawyer Walker is supposedly the leader of the schools' blatant bad boys, and rumored to be in a gang. And a very powerful one at that. He follows his own set of rules, which literally translates to following none. He was what parents told their kids not to become. He's a tyrant and a delinquent, but everyone has their reasons and their pasts that make them who they are. Most fear being in his presence, but what happens when Loyal surprisingly isn't? How does Sawyer handle not being feared? What happens when they unfold her life, and discover every scar she tried to heal, only to rip them open again? How will they react when Loyal's true identity is sought out, and their lives all finally click? Now as cliche as this is about to sound, we all know that the screwed up girl always falls for the bad boy, right? The only question that's left without an obvious answer is, which one?

❦ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 & 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱-𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭 In her three years of teaching, the last thing Charlotte Dawson was expecting to discover that one of her students was being mistreated at home. For Jax Beckett, the last thing he was expecting the day he left jail was to hear his younger brother was in the hospital after being harmed by their parents. The person who was alerted to the situation and saved him was none other than his brother's elementary teacher. Jax wants to take custody of his brother but because of his status as an ex-convict, the children's protection services want to make sure it never happens. Luckily for him, Wren's teacher is able to come up with a crazy idea to help him. Move in with her and together they take care of Wren. What happens when Jax's past starts to catch up with him? What happens when feelings arise between the two of them? Will Charlotte be able to handle the ex-convict? Get ready for a burning love between a teacher and an ex-convict. ✘✘✘ ⚠️𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐝𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭/𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬.⚠️ ✘✘✘ What readers have to say: "I'm IN LOVE with the story!! It's so well developed and intriguing that I can't help but want more! You're doing an extremely amazing job! ❤️❤️❤️ It also feels more of a reality book than fiction because many things that happen in the book do happen in real life!!"