"What are you doing?" I asked. "Doing what I should've done last night" He answered. He grabbed my face gently with his hands and crushed his lips against mine. I gripped the sides of his shirt and kissed him back. He pulled away and smirked. He pulled away completely from me and my arms dropped to my sides. "Daniel come on" Carter called out to him. "Babe?" A girls voice called out. I frowned. "I'll be right down" He yelled back. I looked at the ground. "I'm not a toy" I said to him. "I know you're my best friends little sister" He replied. I shook my head as he left.

Kara Hawthorne refuses to fall in love until the brooding Cameron crashes into her life. He burns for her like no other. But the past doesn't forget and the biggest sacrifice of his life awaits. ***** Spitfire Kara Hawthorne is a hardworking twenty-one-year-old college student with a smart mouth who wants nothing more than to save her family's auto shop. But her life is thrown into a whirlwind as her intense attraction for the dangerous Cameron Saint Laurent becomes all too consuming. Cameron has revealed his painful memories to Kara, but she knows there is more he refuses to tell her. Cameron's past is clouded in mystery and is darker than even he knows. Will Cameron conquer his demons and claim Kara's heart, or will he let the darkness of his past destroy him and lose his chance at love forever? Book 2 in the In Love Series [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Cover designed by Ren Tachibana

All rights reserved. ~ ~DUAL POV~ ~ Azalea and Aiden have never gotten along. Despite the absurdity of it, they have been rivals since birth. But as time went on, their conflict evolved into an obsession. Now that they are both required to work together for the entire year, neither of them realizes that the other would soon become their rock in troubled times as both of their pasts begin to slowly catch up with them as well as their future. ~ This is a book with all my favorite tropes; light enemies to lovers, slow-burn, found family, possessive but soft love interest, high school, and a little sports romance... ~ Unedited! This is the first draft. [Word count: 100.000+] ~ Started: 30 April 2022 Finished: 24 January 2023 ~ [Warning: Mature and explicit content, strong language etc.] ~ Highest rankings; #1 in us against the world #1 in psychos #1 in possessive boyfriend #2 in friend group #3 in romance #3 in friendship