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"Shut up and kiss me," he whispered, voice rough, breath hot against my lips. And for a second, I forgot who I was - and who I wasn't allowed to want. ~ It started with stolen glances across a classroom. A dare in his smirk. A secret in her silence. He wasn't supposed to look at her. She wasn't supposed to look back. But some sparks don't wait for permission. Juliette Bloom has spent her life staying small - the quiet girl with the perfect grades and the invisible bruises. With parents who treat control like love and silence like safety, she's learned to survive by never letting anyone in. Then Alec Blackwood ruins that. He's handsome in a way that hurts - all jawlines, cold stares, and expensive apathy. Untouchable. Unbothered. The kind of boy who doesn't flinch, doesn't feel, and doesn't care. But when he looks at her, she doesn't feel small. She feels seen. And suddenly, what started as a glance becomes a pattern. A pattern becomes tension. And tension turns into something raw. Something forbidden. Something they can't undo. She's his weakness. He's her breaking point. And the one thing they swore they wouldn't do? They just did.
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