He cracked the window, letting in the crisp spring air. It was too dark to see where specifically he was looking, but he had turned to face you. One hand remained on the steering wheel, the other over the back of the seat.
He offered, "Wanna get in the back?"
"Sure," you said, dropping your purse on the floor, and opened your door.
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When 𝐌𝐢𝐚 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 has to move back to Cedarsville, the perfect, glittering village of her childhood, she expects to pick up right where she left off: rich, admired, untouchable.
But Cedarsville remembers, and so does 𝐀𝐮𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐲 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐤.
Once, they were inseparable: two girls building worlds in a treehouse, dreaming about forever.
Until Aubrey kissed her, and Mia called it gross, and everything broke.
Mia's family whisked her away to England. Aubrey stayed behind to become the outcast everyone whispered about.
Now, six years later, Mia's back.
Aubrey's still the same: clever, sharp, a little desperate to be seen, and Mia's still pretending she feels nothing at all.
It's not a love story.
It's obsession, humiliation, revenge, and the kind of attention that burns more than it heals.
They destroy each other slowly, intimately. Because somewhere deep down, they both think it's what they deserve.