"Who made you be this way?" he asked curiously as he focused on me intensely. I scoffed, "The devil in disguise did. He burned me in hell." "Is he the reason for those scars on your arms and wrists too?" his voice came out so low, which caused me to pull the sleeves of my sweater further down. "He was. Besides, those are not scars, they are battle wounds." I sucked a deep breath in. "A battle with whom?" his eyes were filled with concern and I had to avert my gaze from his to the glass of water in front of me. "Myself." - Imagine falling so deep in love that you eventually lose yourself. Imagine falling so deep that you're scared you might never be able to forget him and all the pain, heartache and sadness he put you through. Imagine falling so deep that you find yourself crying your heart and lungs out on the cold bathroom floor in the middle of the night just hopelessly screaming and begging to get over him. highest rank: #30 in Teen Fiction [02/19/2017] Sequel: TIME WILL TELL ♡

At Genevieve Duke's first university party, she makes the mistake of drunkenly stumbling into the dangerous, attractive bad boy's bedroom and straddling him, desiring to get her first kiss out of the way. After the humiliating night before, Genevieve wishes to forget her drunken bravery and continue her goody-two-shoes life. But everywhere she goes, she runs into the egotistical, arrogant, hot-headed Darien Wilde and she finds she either wants to kick his manhood or lock lips. He warns her to stay away but she's tired of being the good girl, of listening to authority and in this case, Darien's the dangerous force threatening her to stay in line. The more he tells her to stay out of his world, the more drawn she is to him and his world. The chaos, the booze, the sex, the fights. She's not quite sure who's seducing whom anymore. As she breaks down his high walls, she sees something beyond his inked skin, beyond his scarred knuckles. But will he let her in? She's never played with fire before and with Darien's powerful flames, she's bound to be burned. But she doesn't know the extent of how truly dangerous he is.