[BOOK 1]
"I won't leave" I whisper, and he smiles, "I know, baby" he says softly, and my lips tug upwards
into a smile.
"You're the exception" he continued, his tone tender as he pressed a short, sweet kiss to my forehead.
I didn't know it then, but I started falling in love with Finn Brookes, we were each other's exceptions.
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Lily Garcia didn't come to university looking for love-especially not with someone like Finn Brooks. He's charming, infuriating, and a walking complication she doesn't need. But no matter how hard she tries to keep her distance, there's something about him that feels like gravity, pulling her closer with every encounter. Beneath his cocky exterior, she senses the fractures he tries to hide-the same ones she's been running from her entire life.
Finn's been through hell, and love isn't part of the plan. He's good at keeping his walls high, locking out anyone who might get too close. But then Lily shows up, and suddenly his carefully controlled life begins to unravel. She's everything he didn't know he was missing, and that scares him more than he's willing to admit.
But with their pasts threatening to destroy what they could be, and old friends trying to drive a wedge between them, trust becomes their biggest hurdle. And when a new love interest steps into the picture, everything Lily and Finn thought they were building starts to fall apart.
Fighting their demons was never supposed to include each other, but now they have to decide if the risk of heartbreak is worth the reward of finally letting someone in.
♤VOL 1: Book III in the FORBIDDEN series♤
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"Have you ever been in love?"
I didn't know what to say to that. My skin heated with an embarrassed, uncomfortable blush that even attacked my skull.
I should've been more prepared for the question, I guess. Still, it felt like a punch in the gut.
Who says I'm not, is what I wanted to say-it's the worse thing I could possibly say. The worst thing to admit to myself now.
"By that look," she gestured to my face, sitting back in her chair, "I'd say you have."
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He hadn't been prepared for the past year.
In the beginning, he only saw it as his first and last year of freedom.
He dropped out of honors classes and quit the track team to focus on more academic studies and getting into college.
A girl hadn't been in his plans.
Heartbreak hadn't either.
But it happened anyway because life could be a bitch like that.
And now he had to start college and a new life with the pain and memories burning in the back of his head and chest for however long it took to be okay after a heart had been broken.
He'd been denying the one thing everyone's been throwing at him; 'college will change you'.
And now he's seeing that there was a chance he would change. But it wouldn't be because of college.
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♤ Sequel to 'Forbidden Attraction'
♤ Will officially start publishing in September 2020