His eyes caught mine, and bit-by-bit, everyone else in the room disappeared. “We’re losing daylight here on the search for an apartment, Remington.” Hartford’s impatient voice brought me back.

Part of me had wanted to make my mom happy and keep Malcolm from worrying about me. Hartford had asked me to wear it again, and I’d finally agreed the day we landed back in Raleigh. I stared at the rock that symbolized everything I wanted. I followed his eyes, realizing he’d seen the engagement ring on my finger. I glanced back at him to see that his face had whitened. What was wrong with me? Why was I baiting him?

I dropped the pearls and twisted my wrist. I crossed them and he flinched, a flush rising in his cheeks as he sat up and put the paper on the table. Bending down from his chair, he reached to snatch them, his eyes snaking over my legs. What was he doing?Īs if directed by a part of my brain I had no control over, my right hand toyed with the small strand of pearls I’d put on with my sundress.ĭax inhaled sharply, dropping the papers he’d been holding on the floor between us. What he said.” Dax gazed at me, his tongue dipping out to dab at his lower lip. He adjusted his wire spectacles and focused on me. There’s a whole jar of dills in there right now that my step-mum, Clara, brought me. “Language,” I said but no one seemed to notice. Welcome to Briarcrest Academy…where sometimes, the best things in life are Very Bad Things.Dax grinned, the first genuine one I’d seen. He resists the pull of their attraction, hung up on their six year age difference.Īs they struggle to stay away from each other, secrets will be revealed, tempers will flare, and hearts will be broken. His gym and his brother are all he cares about…until he meets Nora. When it comes to girls, twenty-five-year-old Leo Tate has one rule: never fall in love.

Leaving behind her million-dollar mansion and Jimmy Choos, she becomes a girl hell-bent on pushing the limits with alcohol, drugs, and meaningless sex. She’s an accomplished pianist, a Texas beauty queen, and on her way to Princeton after high school. Very Bad Things (Briarwood Academy #1) by Ilsa Madden-Mills – Free eBooks Downloadīorn into a life of privilege and secrets, Nora Blakely has everything any nineteen-year-old girl could desire.

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