"What are you doing," I whispered, his hands grasping my waist, pulling me closer.
"Something i've been waiting to do," he breathed, as his lips brushed against mine a few times, before slowly pulling away.
"I hope that was okay," he said smiling, forehead pressed to mine. The tension was clear, and I couldn't take it anymore. I leaned forward, my lips crashing into his, and in that moment, we collided. Blair was no longer the troubled bad boy I had always seen him as, and I was no longer the broken new girl he had met by chance. We were one. A single entity, probably destined to crash and burn, but we didn't care. All we cared about was that moment. That one magical moment.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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