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They've known each other their entire lives.
Annabelle Daisy Bennett has spent most of hers being known as Belle-the independent, sarcastic, put-together girl everyone at college knows.
But to Malachi Barton, she'll always be Dais.
The girl who was impossible to hate. The girl who turned their childhood rivalry into friendship, their friendship into something neither of them expected, and eventually became the person he loved most.
Until everything changed.
A few months into college, Malachi loses his dad. He drops out, goes home, and decides the best thing he can do for Annabelle is let her go.
He just doesn't bother telling her why.
Two years later, Malachi is back.
Annabelle has spent two years learning how to live without him, and she's determined not to let him ruin the life she's built.
She wants to hate him.
She really does.
But Malachi knows her better than anyone-and he's not leaving this time.
Because if there's one thing he learned in the two years without her, it's that losing Annabelle once was enough.
Now he'll do anything to get his Dais back.
Even if she makes him earn every second of it.