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They were never dating. At least, that's what she kept telling everyone.
Mara Reyes has one goal: graduate at the top of her class. Relationships are distractions, and she has no time for them.
Elias Vale has no problem being her distraction.
For a year, they've had an arrangement-no labels, no promises, no expectations. Just two college students who are undeniably attracted to each other and a private condo where they can forget about everything else.
But Elias has a problem.
He's fallen for her.
He just never told her.
Everyone on campus thinks they're together anyway. He holds her hand in public, massages her fingers when she studies, waits for her after class, and looks at her like she's the only person in the room.
Mara doesn't think much of it.
To her, Elias is safe.
Familiar.
The one person she trusts enough to let into her private world.
Until Adrian Cole asks if he can court her.
And when Mara says yes, Elias realizes he may have made the biggest mistake of his life by pretending he was okay with being just friends.
Jealousy turns into anger. Anger turns into a line he shouldn't have crossed.
And suddenly, the boy who always had a key to her door doesn't have one anymore.
Now Elias has to figure out how to love a girl who never promised to choose him-
before someone else does.
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