Rules of Us

I wasn't looking for him.
He wasn't waiting for me.

Dhanna Kinn has always been careful, predictable, calculative, and in control. Afraid of rejection, she kept to herself. But this year, she's breaking her own rules; she is learning the law of "Just Asking" instead of wondering in her head. But she never expected or planned on how a single, impulsive moment would throw her directly into the path of a man she never thought she would dare to approach-a man she can't seem to shake.

Trent Neal doesn't try to be noticed. He doesn't have to be. He is calm, composed, and unreadable in a way that makes people look twice without knowing why. He is approachable with a quick smile, but not fully accessible behind the walls he carefully keeps up.
She just wanted to build a new connection with a man that intrigue her at every glance, but curiosity is a quiet kind of fire. It starts with a simple intention and turns into a need to map out every single one of his secrets. But what happens when curiosity and proximity mix into something completely undeniable? At every gaze, she finds herself utterly lost in his deep, blue-green eyes, unable to look away as they pull out a wild, daring side of herself she never knew existed.

Either way... the circles he's running are about to pull her under, straight into a game she doesn't know how to play. To finally step out of her own head and into the path of a man she can't seem to shake. And every time she tells herself it means nothing... it feels less true.

Not attraction. Not yet. Something quieter. Something harder to ignore.

The scariest part isn't wondering whether he feels the same.

It's realizing she never meant to feel anything at all.

Maybe she's chasing a feeling.
Maybe she's chasing him.

Either way... what if the closer she gets, the more impossible it becomes to turn back?

VeilRay presents a Young Adult romance.
𝓐 𝓥𝓮𝓲𝓵𝓡𝓪𝔂 𝓡𝓸𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓮
The Northbridge Series
Book 1 - Rules of Us (D