Continuing on a TBR/Beat-The-Backlog kick (and ignoring my ARCs kick). Here's "Safe" by L Waltree, which is a part of the King's Heart series.
["Landon
King’s Heart Preparatory Academy for Young Men.
A place I don’t want to be. But it’s a good opportunity. So I take it, hoping it’ll help me land a scholarship and eventually get my family out of our tiny trailer.
Though I didn’t know he’d be here.
That sickly kid from my past who always tried to mess with me.
Now he’s all grown up and captain of the football team I’m joining.
He wants me to be miserable.
He wants me to leave.
But when I get too close and see everything he holds under the surface, all I want to do is stay.
Grant
What is he doing here?
He’s from a time that no one is supposed to know about. A secret that continues to haunt me under my angry facade.
I try to make him miserable.
I try to make him leave.
He won’t budge, threatening everything I’ve kept hidden away.
But when I accidentally let him in, I find that he makes me feel the one thing I’ve been chasing all these years.
Safe."]
What a perfect example of a bully romance! Horrible and nasty and well-that-was-too-far mixed with fluff and sweetness and soooo much vulnerability.
I wanted to punch Grant and then wrap him up in a blanket and feed him cocoa. His life wasn’t easy, it his money, popularity, and attitude made him seem untouchable. I wanted to wrap Landon up in blankets and feed him (anything) and then shake him a little. His life wasn’t easy, but it was all on display for everyone to see; what wasn’t was the love and support.
Those last chapters?!?! I was shook. It was a glorious twist (and it definitely helped me stop crying).
Trigger Warnings: bullying, con noncon, sexual abuse of a child (mentioned, off-page, in the past), murder (gun violence), arson, assault, arrest of a parent, death of a parent (mentioned, off-page, in the past), purging, mentions of sex work, and more.
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