BAD IDEA RIGHT ?-OFF CAMPUS

Everybody at Briar University knows Dean Di Laurentis.

Hockey star.
Campus flirt.
Professional heartbreaker.

And unfortunately for him, Julianna Logan has known him longer than anybody.

Long before the parties and hookups and Briar hockey fame, Dean was just Logan's annoying best friend who climbed through her bedroom window at midnight and stole fries off her plate. The same boy who kissed her for the first time behind high school bleachers. The same boy she broke up with before either of them had the chance to ruin each other completely.

Now they exist in the same messy orbit.

Shared friend groups.
Late nights at the hockey house.
Tension that never really went away.

Jules has spent the last two years trying to move on from both Dean and her toxic ex boyfriend, Grayson Vaughn. She's perfectly happy focusing on photography, surviving art school, and pretending her life isn't one missed phone call away from falling apart.

Then Dean starts paying attention again.

Not in the casual way he looks at everybody else.

In the dangerous way.

The noticing way.

And suddenly the boy Jules swore she was over is back in her life acting like he remembers every version of her that existed before Grayson broke pieces of her apart.

Which would all be a lot easier to ignore if Dean Di Laurentis didn't still look at her like she's the only girl in the room.