She thinks she’s still pure as long as it’s not a guy touching her. The princess thinks I’ll scratch her itch.

The witch with her beautiful skin, clean shoes, and rich parents who torments me daily and thinks I won’t fight back.Īt least not until I get her alone and find out she’s hiding so much more than just what’s underneath those pretty clothes.

I’m not ashamed of where I come from, my family, or how everyone at Marymount thinks my skirts are too short and my lipstick is too red.Ĭlay Collins and her friends have always turned up their noses at me. I cross the tracks every day for one reason-to graduate from this school and get into the Ivy League. My hand up her skirt.įor me, life is a web of secrets. Unfortunately, what I want I have to hide. The truth is that it’s easy for me to resist them, because what I truly want, they can never be. I own the hallways, walking tall on Monday and dropping to my knees like the good Catholic girl I am on Sunday. I’m behaved.īeautiful, smart, talented, popular, my skirt’s always pressed, and I never have a hair out of place. Not that I have anything to share anyway. We’re chaste, we’re untouched, and even if we weren’t, no one would know, because we keep our mouths shut. She also realizes that lines blur and rules become easy to break when no one else is watching.Īway games, back seats, and the locker room after hours… Get ready! Sent to live with him and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, in the mountains of Colorado, Tiernan soon learns that these men now have a say in what she chooses to care and not care about anymore.Īs the three of them take her under their wing, teach her to work and survive in the remote woods far away from the rest of the world, she slowly finds her place among them. Jake Van der Berg, her father’s stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan who is still two months shy of 18. But has anything really changed? She’s always been alone, hasn’t she? The shadow of her parents’ fame followed her everywhere.Īnd when they suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. Shipped off to boarding schools from an early age, it was still impossible to escape the loneliness and carve out a life of her own. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she’s grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. Tiernan de Haas doesn’t care about anything anymore. Three of them, one of her, and a remote cabin in the woods.

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