❝ 𝘽𝘼𝘿 𝘽𝙊𝙔𝙎 𝘽𝙍𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙃𝙀𝘼𝙑𝙀𝙉 𝙏𝙊 𝙔𝙊𝙐. ❞
𝗛𝗘 didn't know what he caused.
𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗔𝗨𝗦𝗘 even she didn't want to admit it.
𝗔𝗡𝗗 there came a point when he realized his mistake.
𝗝𝗢𝗖 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘𝗡 was a name every girl knew and never forgot. For Marley Dawson, it seemed like his name was forever engraved in her mind.
𝗥𝗨𝗟𝗘𝗦 say, "Don't fall for your brother's best friend." But what the rules never specified was whether or not it's okay to let him take your v-card. And when he does, things get a little more messy than a simple stain on the duvet.
𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗘𝗬 𝗗𝗔𝗪𝗦𝗢𝗡 was a normal girl with a below-average social life; someone who shut herself down, locked away her emotions, let herself bleed from the inside out. And she didn't like to point fingers, but it was all because of 𝘩𝘪𝘮. Of what 𝘩𝘦 caused.
𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 also say, "Childhood crushes never die." Which is maybe why she let him take the one thing she valued most: her control, her sanity, herself. Because turns out, she wasn't 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 a hookup. She was a cheater's mechanism to grilling an excuse as to why he, Joc Haven, the high school's prettyboy and charmer, had a reason to dump his on-and-off, sickeningly toxic girlfriend, Ariel Cope.
𝗔𝗡𝗗 he already used her once, so that makes it okay to pull Marley into his relationship drama for the second time around, right? 𝗪𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗚. And Joc notices that when he discovers the cracks in Marley's armor.
𝗦𝗛𝗘 gave him the power to hurt her all over again. Yet this time he used it to fix what he broke. The well-known player and heartbreak became Marley Dawson's saving grace. 𝙃𝙚 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙖𝙛𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣.
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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