"If you turn your back to me again, you better be bending over, sweetheart."
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Everyone warns you about boys who go looking for troubles, who have bruised knuckles and split lips, whose eyes are so dark that it seems like they could swallow oceans and come out alive, about the boys who look like danger, but no one warns about boys who stay silent for way too long, or ones with rings under their eyes, boys with sad eyes and boys who whisper things so sweet, so quietly that you wonder if he was an angel.
Everyone warns you about the bad boys, but no one seems to warn you about the broken ones.
Bar Red was a broken boy who finally finds someone to help mend his scattered pieces.
Everyone saw him as the untrustworthy, unstable beast who was more than willing to punch anyone's face in.
Swear words and bad habits mixed with smirks and wicked grins are enough to ward anyone off.
But, apparently for Clementine, that's exactly what pulls her in.
She has no clue what she's getting into but she's about to find out. She wasn't innocent, not by far, but she had dignity, a warm aura, niceness, and stubbornness that could rival a mule.
Mix that with Bar's possessiveness and overprotective behavior, some interesting situations will definitely arise.
Adding in the fact that Clementine had to tutor Bar for the rest of the school year and his almost instinctual urge to be apart of her life, they are bound to get close.
Bar swears, Clementine hates it.
He fights, she glares while bandaging up his knuckles.
She reads instead of eats and he refuses dinner until she joins him.
He is rude and she ignores him until he apologizes.
Both, easily, frustrate the other while simultaneously falling into love.
Broken boys are the only ones that can fix themselves so will this broken boy manage to do so before he drives away the one girl who wiggled her way past every barrier?
This is the story of a broken bad boy clashing with the sad good girl.
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#1 in the Red series
Stand alone
Formerly called 'Withered'
Highest Ranking as of 5/18/2018: #5 in Matureaudience; 12/7/2018: #3 in ied
I gulped as his hand cupped my jaw, "Tell me River. Are you scared of me?" He asked and I looked up at his eyes.
I didn't have to ponder over the matter long.
"I don't know." I said softly.
Daimen frowned and studied me for a while, "Just wondering, because you seem to love pissing me off. And most people don't. So I guess you need some figuring out to do."
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Daimen and River were both seniors at the same high school, they took some of the same classes, walked the same halls, live in fair distance from each other, but they couldn't have been more different. When high school was over River and Daimen became ghosts to each other but then years later fate decides to bring them back together.
River Sparrow hates confrontation. She's jumpy, but tries to see the bright side of situations. She's quiet, soft spoken, the "teacher's pet," and keeps to herself a lot. She's a volunteer at the local animal shelter and loves one dog in particular the most.
Daimen Princeston would fight in a heartbeat. He's strong, intimidating, and pretty much has people running for the hills at the very aspect of him getting angry. His devil-may-care attitude swirls around him and no one wants to get on his bad side. Of course River is afraid of him, and she has a good right to be.
But when River starts to learn more of the young man everyone fears she starts to see him in a new way. After some time feelings grow stronger and she hopes she's not fallen for a murderer. And if she has, who is she to deny him the love he so desperately needs?